Re: array support patch phase 1 patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: "Patches (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: array support patch phase 1 patch
Date: 2003-03-30 22:16:32
Message-ID: 12495.1049062592@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Don't think you need it to go in that direction: the property of having
>> nonzero typelem indicates that something is an array.

> But I don't think of the following as arrays, at least not in the same
> sense of _text, etc.:

If you want to reject fixed-length array types for this purpose, you can
also insist on typlen < 0.

regards, tom lane

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