Re: beta time

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: beta time
Date: 2004-08-08 05:28:16
Message-ID: 200408080528.i785SGH20336@candle.pha.pa.us
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Joe Conway wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> >>1. '{{"1 2" x},{3}}'
> >>2. '{{},{}}'
> >
> >>My patch would generate an ERROR for either. Tom, you questioned my
> >>disallowing of both of these, but didn't seem to have a very strong
> >>opinion.
> >
> > I don't have any great love for the first item --- I think it was an
> > unintended consequence of the way the code was first written, rather
> > than something the author meant to support.
> >
> > I'm more concerned about what the second should mean, but I do have to
> > concede that we'd likely want to appropriate this syntax to mean NULL
> > array entries as soon as we support NULL array entries. So rejecting it
> > at the moment may be a forward-looking thing to do.
>
> I committed the attached.
>
> Regarding the release notes, I take it that we should modify
> doc/src/sgml/release.sgml? Does the following sound reasonable, or

Right.

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