Re: final patch - plpgsql: for-in-array

On Thursday 18 November 2010 21:11:32 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Pavel Stehule's message of jue nov 18 17:00:04 -0300 2010:
> > 2010/11/18 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:
> > >> I didn't say so nobody use it. You, me, David. But I really didn't see
> > >> this pattern here in real applications.
> > >
> > > Lots of people are told to use it on IRC. Trust me, it's getting well
> > > known.
> >
> > can be. but people on IRC are not representative.
>
> Yeah, that's true. I point out usage of unnest to our customers too,
> but it's much more common to see people not using it, instead relying on
> subscripts. People using Postgres show up unexpectedly from under
> rocks, in the weirdest corners; they rarely consult documentation and
> even more rarely get into IRC or mailing list to get help.
Well, a good reason for that might be that unnest() is pretty new... Most code
I read has been initially written quite a bit earlier. Seeing 8.4 in
production is only starting to get common.

Andres