| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> |
| Cc: | YUriy Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Some questions about the array. |
| Date: | 2015-11-30 14:58:49 |
| Message-ID: | CAHyXU0xKCW120S-d+hMmOp3AvGHo+nOd80zcKx1G+CyE7eBhtQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> wrote:
> YUriy Zhuravlev wrote:
>>
>> On Friday 06 November 2015 12:55:44 you wrote:
>>>
>>> Omitted bounds are common in other languages and would be handy. I
>>> don't think they'd cause any issues with multi-dimensional arrays or
>>> variable start-pos arrays.
>>
>>
>> And yet, what about my patch?
>
> My vote: let us do it, mean, omitting bounds. It simplifies syntax in rather
> popular queries.
+1 useful and intuitive
>> Discussions about ~ and{:} it seems optional.
>
> ~ is allowed as unary operator and therefore such syntax will introduce
> incompatibily/ambiguity.
+1 IMO this line of thinking is a dead end. Better handled via
functions, not syntax
merlin
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