Re: Missing array support

Joe, do you need a TODO added for this?

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Joe Conway wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> >
> >>So array[] should produce '{}' of (an array) type determined by the
> >>context? OK -- seems easy enough.
> >
> > Is it? I think we'd decided that this could only reasonably be handled
> > by creating a datatype representing array-of-UNKNOWN. I'm afraid to do
> > that because I think it might allow the parser's type resolution
> > algorithms to follow paths we will not like. Perhaps it can be made to
> > work, but I think it will require some careful study.
>
> I took a closer look -- yeah, without array-of-UNKNOWN I don't think we
> can make this work.
>
> I got something working by forcing the element type to UNKNOWN when the
> elements list is empty in transformExpr(), but then select_common_type()
> turns around and turns UNKNOWN into TEXT, so you wind up with an empty
> text[].
>
> I won't bother sending that patch in because I *know* it will get
> rejected ;-)
>
> I guess we should put array-of-UNKNOWN on the list of things to look at
> for 7.5.
>
> Joe
>
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