Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] casting strings to multidimensional arrays yields

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Hackers (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] [BUGS] casting strings to multidimensional arrays yields
Date: 2004-08-07 18:29:07
Message-ID: 41151F73.4030405@joeconway.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not sure that we had such an agreement, but in any case we've got
> to understand how to distinguish empty-string from NULL.
>

I realized that in my followup post regarding nested arrays. In any
case, since will not 8.0 support either NULL elements nor nested arrays,
can we agree that '{{},{}}' and similar is not allowed? If someone
really wants '{{""},{""}}', they will still be able to specify it in
that precise way.

Joe

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