Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Darren Duncan <darren(at)DarrenDuncan(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY
Date: 2010-11-11 18:45:55
Message-ID: F22CCF14-3FD6-4FC4-8463-8FCB7D52615C@kineticode.com
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On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:

> I think that it would be best to implement MULTISET in the same way that a TABLE is implemented. Logically and structurally they are the same thing, but that a MULTISET typically is used as a field value of a table row. Aka, a table and a multiset are just different names for a relation, loosely speaking.

That sounds like a composite type to me.

Best,

David

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