I was wondering why is such a rage against arrays.
I posted 2 very common problems where arrays provide
the only natural (and efficient) fit. (and got no responses)
So it seems to me that:
- Arrays implementation (along with the intarray package) in postgresql
is well performing and stable.
- Some problems shout out for array usage.
- The Array interface is defined in java.sql package.
(I dont know if sql arrays is in some standard but it seems that
Java sees it that way, at least).
- The Array interface is implemented in the official postgresql java
package.
- In some problems replacing arrays according the tradition relational
paradigm would end up in a such a performance degradation, that
some applications would be unusable.
- Oleg and Teodor did a great job in intarray, making array usage
easy and efficient.
Thanx!
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Achilleus Mantzios
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