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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays
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Msg-id 6178.1131466211@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays  (Harald Fuchs <hf0923x@protecting.net>)
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Harald Fuchs <hf0923x@protecting.net> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, that already has a meaning, and it's not that.

> How about '{a, \N, b}'?

That's valid syntax too, ie, adopting that syntax would break
applications that are not broken today.

Not to mention that it would be gratuitously different from the notation
for NULLs in composite-type literals.
        regards, tom lane


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