Re: [HACKERS] Array bug is still there.... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Martin
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Array bug is still there....
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In response to [HACKERS] Array bug is still there....  (Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk>)
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> On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Andrew Martin wrote:
>
> > > Don't know who uses arrays,
> > > but it apparently isn't anyone who cares enough to try fixing the
> > > problem.
> >
> > I agree. I've never used them and don't know anyone who has. My point
> > is that if this is a feature we are keeping then it should work
> > properly. If not, then it could be dumped like time travel, but I'm
> > sure there must be some people out there somewhere who do use it :-)
>
> I use arrays.  I wrote a time sheet program.  For a given employee,
> month and contract I store, among other things, an array giving the
> hours worked for each day of the month.
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But do you use *multi-dimensional* arrays (that's really what I should
have said rather than just arrays). 1D arrays seem to work fine. It's
the multi-D arrays where the output makes no sense.


Andrew

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