Re: Some questions about the array.

2015-11-09 13:50 GMT+01:00 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:

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> 2015-11-09 13:32 GMT+01:00 YUriy Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>:
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>> On Monday 09 November 2015 13:29:30 you wrote:
>> > It is ugly, but you can wrap it to function - so still I don't see any
>> > reason, why it is necessary
>> For example, I'm writing a lot of queries by hands...
>> This functionality is available in many languages and it's just
>> convenient. Of
>> course it is possible and without it, but why?
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> New symbols increase a complexity of our code and our documentation.
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> If some functionality can be implemented via functions without performance
> impacts, we should not to create new operators or syntax - mainly for
> corner use cases.
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I can understand, so current system of accessing array data has some
disadvantage - the behave was designed twenty years ago, when the arrays
didn't support NULLs, but I am not sure, if introduction secondary
accessing system helps. Probably not.

Regards

Pavel

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