Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes: > I understand, but I don't agree. W have to fix impractical design of > arrays early. A ARRAY is 1st class - so there is not possible to use > varchar2 trick. > > if we don't would to use GUC, what do you think about compatible > extension? We can overload a system functions behave. This can solve a > problem with updates and migrations.
In Common Lisp arrays are multi-dimensional too, and the 1-D arrays have a specific name, they call them vectors. If you create an array with only 1 dimension, then it's a vector. All the array API works the same on vectors. I guess we could specialize some of our API on vectors and avoid having to tell the system which dimension we are interested into when using them rather than multi-dimensional arrays. Now from the internals perspective I also guess we don't want to be generating so many more types so maybe we would need some tricks to know how to promote a 1-D array into a vector automatically? -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
