Re: proposal: searching in array function - array_position

On 3/10/15 10:53 AM, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 3/10/15 9:30 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>> You still duplicate the type cache code, but many other array
>>> functions do
>>> that too so I will not hold that against you. (Maybe somebody should
>>> write
>>> separate patch that would put all that duplicate code into common
>>> function?)
>>>
>>> I think this patch is ready for committer so I am going to mark it as
>>> such.
>>
>> The documentation in this patch needs some improvements to the
>> English. Can anyone help with that?
>
> I'll take a look at it.
>
>> The documentation should discuss what happens if the array is
>> multi-dimensional.

This is the wording I have to describe what happens with a
multi-dimensional array. I'm not thrilled with it; anyone have better ideas?

Note: multi-dimensional arrays are squashed to one dimension before
searching.
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