Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: Should array_length() Return NULL)

From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: Should array_length() Return NULL)
Date: 2013-04-03 18:58:09
Message-ID: 515C7BC1.5050507@archidevsys.co.nz
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On 04/04/13 05:36, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Fortran ... Basic ... actually I'd have thought that zero was a
>> minority position. Fashions change I guess.
> I say we turn the default lower bound up to 11.
>
> David
>
>
In keeping with the level of irrationality in this thread, maybe we
should set it to an irrational number like the square root of 2, or
transcend our selves and make in a transcendental number like pi! :-)

I suppose using the square root of minus one would be consider too
imaginative??? :-)

Cheers,
Gavin

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