Re: trouble caused by change in 7.3 handling of '' in

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: trouble caused by change in 7.3 handling of '' in
Date: 2002-12-19 22:50:09
Message-ID: 7271.1040338209@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> writes:
> I am all the more concerned since with version 7.3 the interpretation of
> arrays has become non-consistent.

This is not inconsistent. You are in both cases trying to feed an empty
string to the input parser for the array's element type. You may as
well complain because "abc" is acceptable input for text and not for
integer...

regards, tom lane

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