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

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY
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Msg-id C810CBC1-6119-48FB-90AD-159BDD150B51@kineticode.com
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In response to Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>> That sounds like a composite type to me.
> 
> No, it's "perpendicular" in the sense that while a composite type allows
> you to have different columns, this multiset thing lets you have "rows"
> (I initially thought about them as sets of scalars, but AFAIU they could
> in turn be rows)

How is that different from an array of RECORDs?

Best,

David


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