Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays
Date: 2005-11-08 14:43:28
Message-ID: 4370B990.7090100@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:

>"Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
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>>it's great news. My personal opinion about formating NULL values
>> '{a, NULL, b}' -- longer, clean NULL is NULL
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>Unfortunately, that already has a meaning, and it's not that.
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What a pity. I don't see any alternative to the empty element proposal -
it's worth the possible breakage.

cheers

andrew

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