Dnia 24-05-2005, wto o godzinie 00:06 -0400, Tom Lane napisał(a): > Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Markus Bertheau wrote: > >> why does SELECT ARRAY(SELECT 1 WHERE FALSE) return NULL instead of > >> ARRAY[] resp. '{}'? > > > Why would you expect an empty array instead of a NULL? > > I think he's got a good point, actually. We document the ARRAY-with- > parens-around-a-SELECT syntax as > > The resulting one-dimensional array will have an element for > each row in the subquery result, with an element type matching > that of the subquery's output column. > > To me, that implies that a subquery result of no rows generates a > one-dimensional array of no elements, not a null array. > > The point Markus is complaining about seems like it should > be easily fixable.
Great :) Is this a TODO? -- Markus Bertheau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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