Re: Possible mistake in new array syntax

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The documentation says the following is allowed:
>
> INSERT INTO sal_emp
> VALUES ('Bill',
> ARRAY[10000, 10000, 10000, 10000],
> ARRAY[['meeting', 'lunch'], ['','']]);
>
> I cannot find justification for this in the standard. According to my
> reading, it should be
>
> INSERT INTO sal_emp
> VALUES ('Bill',
> ARRAY[10000, 10000, 10000, 10000],
> ARRAY[ARRAY['meeting', 'lunch'], ARRAY['','']]);
>

This parallels my question on the last post. I don't see any
justification for multidimensional arrays at all, so my thought was that
we have a free hand to define it. It seemed much nicer to write:
ARRAY[[[[[[1]]]]]]
for a 6 dimensional array, than this:
ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[1]]]]]]
and actually, both do work:

regression=# select ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[ARRAY[1]]]]]];
array
---------------
{{{{{{1}}}}}}
(1 row)

regression=# select ARRAY[[[[[[1]]]]]];
array
---------------
{{{{{{1}}}}}}
(1 row)

Joe