Re: Support for array_remove and array_replace functions
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-07-11T17:40:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Jul 11, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it> writes: >>> Patch v3 attached. >> >> I'm looking at this patch now. The restriction of array_remove to >> one-dimensional arrays seems a bit annoying. I see the difficulty: >> if the input is multi-dimensional then removing some elements could >> lead to a non-rectangular array, which isn't supported. However, >> that could be dealt with by decreeing that the *result* is >> one-dimensional and of the necessary length, regardless of the >> dimensionality of the input. > > Makes sense to me. +1 +1 from me, too. ...Robert