Re: Some questions about the array.

2015-11-09 12:36 GMT+01:00 YUriy Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>:

> On Sunday 08 November 2015 16:49:20 you wrote:
> > I'm not necessarily objecting to that, but it's not impossible that it
> > could break something for some existing user. We can decide not to
> > care about that, though.
>
> We had an idea. You can use ~ to convert the index to the array which
> always
> starts with 0. Then we can use negative indexes, and you can always find
> the
> beginning of the array.
> Example:
> we have array [-3:3]={1,2,3,4,5,6,7}
> array[~0] == 1
> array[~-1] == 7
> array[~2:~-2] == {3,4,5,6}
>
> What do you think?
>

I am sorry - it is looking pretty obscure. Really need this feature?

Pavel

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