Re: proposal: FOREACH-IN-ARRAY (probably for 9.2?) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 12/17/2010 12:15 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2010/12/17 Itagaki Takahiro<itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>:
>>
>> It should be not a main subject, but I remember there was a discussion
>> that "IN ARRAY array-expression" looks redundant for a literal array:
>>
>>   IN ARRAY ARRAY[1, 3, 5]
>>
>> Are there any improvement for the issue?
> yes. It know it. The reason for this is bigger space for possible
> future features related to FOREACH loop.
>

So what you're saying is we need to allow ugliness now so we can have 
more ugliness in future? I don't find that a convincing argument. I 
share the dislike for this syntax.

cheers

andrew