Tom Lane wrote:
> "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2008/6/4 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>>
>>> Huh? That's completely nonsensical ... where will you determine the
>>> type of the array, if you don't have a sample element?
>>>
>
>
>> it is nonsens in current postgres. But null array is castable to anyarray no?
>>
>
> If you mean an array of nulls, it still has to have an element type.
>
>
>
Right, and since the fill element is thus not optional it should be in a
fixed position in the argument list, ISTM, which can only mean it would
come first.
cheers
andrew
