Re: Proposal to introduce a shuffle function to intarray extension

Am 18.07.22 um 01:20 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> I would expect that shuffle() only shuffles the first dimension and
>> keeps the inner arrays intact.
>
> This argument is based on a false premise, ie that Postgres thinks
> multidimensional arrays are arrays-of-arrays. They aren't, and
> we're not going to start making them so by defining shuffle()
> at variance with every other array-manipulating function. Shuffling
> the individual elements regardless of array shape is the definition
> that's consistent with our existing functionality.

Hey Tom,

thank you for clarification. I did not know that. I will make a patch
that is using deconstruct_array().

Martin