On Apr3, 2013, at 15:30 , Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > On 04/02/2013 02:46 PM, Florian Pflug wrote: >> If we're going to break compatibility, we should IMHO get rid of >> non-zero lower bounds all together. My guess is that the number of >> affected users wouldn't be much higher than for the proposed patch, >> and it'd allow lossless mapping to most language's native array types… > > That would actually break a HUGE number of users, since the default lower > bound is 1. I have seen any number of pieces if code that rely on that.
Uh, yeah, we should make it 1 then, not 0, then. As long as the bound is fixed, conversion to native C/Java/Ruby/Python/... arrays would still be lossless. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
