Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays
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Msg-id 4370B990.7090100@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>"Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@hotmail.com> writes:
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>>it's great news. My personal opinion about formating NULL values
>>   '{a, NULL, b}' -- longer, clean NULL is NULL
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>Unfortunately, that already has a meaning, and it's not that.
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What a pity. I don't see any alternative to the empty element proposal - 
it's worth the possible breakage.

cheers

andrew


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