On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Jim Nasby <j...@nasby.net> 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?
Perl does, though they regret it bitterly. Cheers, Jeff
