Marc Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about representing null array elements with a special-case cast-like > null? Something like {::null}
The problem with *any* proposal for let's-spell-NULL-like-this is that "this" is inevitably a string that is valid as a text data value. Making the string weirder may reduce the odds of a failure but the risk is still there, and meanwhile you're making the null marker less readable. (The above has the additional problem of being indistinguishable from a sub-array.) I think we really need something that is rejected as syntactically invalid by the existing array input parser. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings