Re: Disallow arrays with non-standard lower bounds

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:26:04PM -0600, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 1/9/14, 10:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> writes:
> >>ISTM that allowing users to pick arbitrary lower array bounds was
> >>a huge mistake. I've never seen anyone make use of it, can't think
> >>of any legitimate use cases for it, and hate the stupendous amount
> >>of extra code needed to deal with it.
> >
> >You lack imagination, sir.
>
> Considering what you'd normally want to do in SQL, the only example
> I can think of is to not have the argument over 0 vs 1 based.
>
> Actually, I was thinking there might be some computational problems
> where changing lower bound would be nice, but then again, what other
> languages actually support this?

Well, there's Perl, but that's not an argument *for* doing this, and I
say that as a long-time Perl user (who has never seen this feature
used in code worth not scrapping, by the way).

Cheers,
David.
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