Re: Arrays ... need clarification....

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Medi Montaseri <medi(dot)montaseri(at)intransa(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Arrays ... need clarification....
Date: 2003-04-08 22:40:57
Message-ID: 3E934FF9.8020503@joeconway.com
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Medi Montaseri wrote:
> Thank you very much Joe....related to Dr. Conway of the Perl
> community ?

Nah, nobody famous in my clan ;-)

> Also, currently as you noted, one has to fill the array sequentially,
> ie no random array access is allowed unless one has initialized it
> already. This appears to be a limitation of the underlying data
> structure. Perhaps you could allow for such random accesses.

It is, in that the current implementation cannot deal with NULL
elements. I don't think that will get fixed for 7.4, but perhaps in some
future release.

Joe

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