From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY |
Date: | 2010-11-12 05:53:09 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTimsNb0RhnbRJa3ErPYf5dOc9rCbCkQtAhqjG9QB@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Itagaki Takahiro
>> <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> If we reuse type IDs of arrays for multisets, the multisets would
>>> have some special typmod. For example, typmod = 0 means multiset,
>>> and positive value means array with max cardinality. Note that
>>> the SQL standard doesn't mention about multi-dimensional arrays.
>>> So, we can use typmod = -1 as a free-size and free-dimensional
>>> array for backward compatibility.
>
>> I would really like to see us fix our type system so that it doesn't
>> require this type of awful hack. But maybe that's asking too much of
>> a patch to implement this feature.
>
> The problem is not with the type system: as long as you give multisets
> different type OIDs from arrays, everything will work fine. It will
> absolutely not work to try to use typmod to make the behavior vary
> like that ... but Itagaki-san knew that already.
And thus you must create a THIRD copy of every entry in pg_type. That
doesn't qualify as a problem?
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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