Re: Disallow arrays with non-standard lower bounds - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 1/9/14, 10:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net> writes:
>> ISTM that allowing users to pick arbitrary lower array bounds was a huge mistake. I've never seen anyone make use of
it,can't think of any legitimate use cases for it, and hate the stupendous amount of extra code needed to deal with
it.
>
> You lack imagination, sir.

Considering what you'd normally want to do in SQL, the only example I can think of is to not have the argument over 0
vs1 based.
 

Actually, I was thinking there might be some computational problems where changing lower bound would be nice, but then
again,what other languages actually support this?
 
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