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Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-11-11T20:42:59Z
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On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>> That sounds like a composite type to me.
> 
> No, it's "perpendicular" in the sense that while a composite type allows
> you to have different columns, this multiset thing lets you have "rows"
> (I initially thought about them as sets of scalars, but AFAIU they could
> in turn be rows)

How is that different from an array of RECORDs?

Best,

David