Re: obtaining ARRAY position for a given match

From: Pedro Doria Meunier <pdoria(at)netmadeira(dot)com>
To: Postgresql Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: obtaining ARRAY position for a given match
Date: 2009-11-23 21:14:19
Message-ID: 4B0AFB2B.8090305@netmadeira.com
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Regarding this thread...
I've been away for a while...
But thank you to all who replied! :)

BR,
Pedro

On 11/19/2009 07:03 PM, Sam Mason wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:47:02AM -0800, Scott Bailey wrote:
>
>> Sam Mason wrote:
>>
>>> Is "idx" really the best name for this?
>>>
>> Well I used idx() because there was already a idx(int[], int) function
>> with the _int contrib module.
>>
> I don't remember ever using that before, hence my question.
>
>
>> In other languages, it is assumed you are looking for the first index.
>>
> Huh, they seem to don't they, even my old stalwart of pedantry, Haskell,
> follows form here. Not sure why I'd never noticed before, "idx" is
> looking more and more sensible!
>
>

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