On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 03:26:04PM -0600, Jim Nasby wrote: > On 1/9/14, 10:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > >Jim Nasby <j...@nasby.net> writes: > >>ISTM that allowing users to pick arbitrary lower array bounds was > >>a huge mistake. I've never seen anyone make use of it, can't think > >>of any legitimate use cases for it, and hate the stupendous amount > >>of extra code needed to deal with it. > > > >You lack imagination, sir. > > Considering what you'd normally want to do in SQL, the only example > I can think of is to not have the argument over 0 vs 1 based. > > Actually, I was thinking there might be some computational problems > where changing lower bound would be nice, but then again, what other > languages actually support this?
Well, there's Perl, but that's not an argument *for* doing this, and I say that as a long-time Perl user (who has never seen this feature used in code worth not scrapping, by the way). Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
