Re: may be a mismatch between the construct_array and construct_md_array comments

From: Alena Rybakina <a(dot)rybakina(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: may be a mismatch between the construct_array and construct_md_array comments
Date: 2024-09-14 21:31:07
Message-ID: 6bbdb5c2-946d-4fe0-96ac-f4d56b6987de@postgrespro.ru
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On 12.09.2024 20:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alena Rybakina <a(dot)rybakina(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> writes:
>> I noticed that there is a comment that values ​​with NULL are not
>> processed there, but in fact this function calls the construct_md_array
>> function, which
>> contains a comment that it can handle NULL values.
> Right. construct_md_array has a "bool *nulls" argument, but
> construct_array doesn't --- it passes NULL for that to
> construct_md_array, which will therefore assume there are no null
> array elements.
>
Understood.

At first I thought this comment was related to the value of a NULL
element that might be in the Array, but now I realized that this is not
the case.

Thanks for the explanation, it helped a lot!

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