| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: casting strings to multidimensional arrays yields strange results |
| Date: | 2004-07-27 16:41:04 |
| Message-ID: | 163.1090946464@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> writes:
> Are you considering NULL padding arrays constructed with the
> ARRAY[] syntax?
Don't think anyone's really thought about it.
> we should consistently pad with 0 instead of sometimes padding and sometimes
> truncating.
"Pad with 0" is a meaningless concept as soon as you think about
nonnumeric data types. I'm not very sure what's even happening
inside the code --- it's a bit surprising it doesn't crash outright
on pass-by-reference data types ...
I'd agree that the truncation behavior is wrong, but I don't want to
get rid of it by causing the padding behavior to happen more often.
regards, tom lane
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