Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nicolas Barbier
Subject Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY
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Msg-id AANLkTik8TDO=BsHe61TC3qAZm4R1B-ZOQPfvZQjgeK7f@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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2010/11/11 David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>:

> On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>> So are you planning to implement multisets? It's a feature I'd love to see
>>
>> What actual functionality does it buy?  AFAICT from Itagaki-san's
>> description, it's an array only you ignore the specific element order.
>> So what?  You can write functions that work that way now.
>
> Also, no dupes.

The "multi" in multiset indicates that duplicate elements are
explicitly allowed and tracked.

Nicolas


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