| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Keller <peter(dot)keller(at)bvv(dot)bayern(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: no quotes in arrays in 7.2 |
| Date: | 2002-03-20 20:39:44 |
| Message-ID: | 7122.1016656784@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Keller <peter(dot)keller(at)bvv(dot)bayern(dot)de> writes:
> Only using a comma as a separator is not very good, because the text in the
> array can contain commas, so seperating can get impossible.
If there are any commas then the value will be quoted.
> Is the new output a bug?
I don't think so. The point was to avoid quoting numeric elements while
fixing the extremely broken rule that array_out used to use to decide
whether to quote or not. The new rule is to look at the text to decide
if it needs any quotes.
regards, tom lane
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