Re: Array dimension lost if dimension length is zero

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Array dimension lost if dimension length is zero
Date: 2016-09-09 11:44:35
Message-ID: 2375.1473421475@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org> writes:
> I still think it may make sense to change this behavior in a major version
> release, although I don't know what the PostgreSQL policy is on such
> breakage.

I think there's basically no chance of that happening. It would break an
enormous amount of code that currently isn't broken, to change to a
definition that's only arguably better than what we have.

regards, tom lane

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