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From Douglas McNaught
Subject Re: Proposal: associative arrays for plpgsql (concept)
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In response to Re: Proposal: associative arrays for plpgsql (concept)  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:

> I'm all in favor of having associative arrays as a 1st-class data type
> in PostgreSQL.  How much harder would it be to make these generally
> available vs. tied to one particular language?

We already have them--they're called "tables with primary keys". :)

What's the use-case for these things?  Just imitating Oracle?

-Doug

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