| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, "Hackers (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: SQL99 ARRAY support proposal |
| Date: | 2003-03-13 17:53:15 |
| Message-ID: | 3E70C58B.7080604@joeconway.com |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> array_pop(anyarray) returns anyelement
>
> That appears to mean that you return somearray[0] and alter the array
> as a side effect. How do you plan to do that?
I'll give you this one -- doesn't make sense.
>>>> split(text, text) returns text[] - split string into array on
>>>> delimiter
There was a thread on this last September, and the consensus was that
the function *should* be name split, in order to be consistent with the
similar function existing in Perl and PHP (at least).
>>>> implode(text[], text) returns text - join array elements into a
>>>> string using given string delimiter
I'm open to opinions on implode() -- I only picked implode() because
that's what it is called in PHP. Any suggestions?
Joe
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