Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MULTISET and additional functions for ARRAY
Date: 2010-11-11 18:11:24
Message-ID: BDDC8434-9A5A-42D6-AF7E-B98987662362@kineticode.com
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On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> So are you planning to implement multisets? It's a feature I'd love to see
>
> What actual functionality does it buy? AFAICT from Itagaki-san's
> description, it's an array only you ignore the specific element order.
> So what? You can write functions that work that way now.

Also, no dupes.

David

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