Re: final patch - plpgsql: for-in-array

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: final patch - plpgsql: for-in-array
Date: 2010-11-18 05:28:34
Message-ID: AANLkTimzQsE7LJ6jc8Bi0bXvU9PynU=+zOwBv2X=vRyV@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> this patch implement a new iteration construct - iteration over an
>> array. The sense of this new iteration is:
>>  * a simple and cleaner syntax
>
> i will start the review of this one... but before that sorry for
> suggesting this a bit later but about using UNNEST as part of the
> sintax?

Does for-in-array do what unnset does? unnest() flattens the whole
array into scalars irregardless of dimensions:
select unnest(array[array[1,2],array[3,4]]);
unnest
--------
1
2
3
4

If yes, then +1 (unless there is some other problem) otherwise -1.

merlin

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