Adam Witney <awitney(at)sgul(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
> UPDATE test SET field2 = field1;
> UPDATE test SET field3[1] = field1;
> Why does the UPDATE of field2 work, but the UPDATE of field3 does not?
Works for me in 8.0 ;-). Before 8.0, if you tried to assign to just one
value of an array that was initially NULL, the array stayed NULL.
(That behavior made sense from the point of view of the implementation,
which sees array element assignment as a binary operation taking an
array and a new element value ... but it wasn't especially useful.)
regards, tom lane