Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: Should array_length() Return NULL) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Apr3, 2013, at 15:30 , Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> On 04/02/2013 02:46 PM, Florian Pflug wrote:
>> If we're going to break compatibility, we should IMHO get rid of
>> non-zero lower bounds all together. My guess is that the number of
>> affected users wouldn't be much higher than for the proposed patch,
>> and it'd allow lossless mapping to most language's native array types…
>
> That would actually break a HUGE number of users, since the default lower
> bound is 1. I have seen any number of pieces if code that rely on that.

Uh, yeah, we should make it 1 then, not 0, then. As long as the bound
is fixed, conversion to native C/Java/Ruby/Python/... arrays would still
be lossless.

best regards,
Florian Pflug