Re: Disallow arrays with non-standard lower bounds

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Disallow arrays with non-standard lower bounds
Date: 2014-01-09 23:24:52
Message-ID: CAM3SWZTNDmS0KBe=R3RM3YB5W8YqhA2pfL2B=xRt5o2DCnejcg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> wrote:
> ISTM that allowing users to pick arbitrary lower array bounds was a huge
> mistake. I've never seen anyone make use of it, can't think of any
> legitimate use cases for it, and hate the stupendous amount of extra code
> needed to deal with it.

I agree with this, but I think it's too late. I don't think the answer
is any type of parameter.

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Peter Geoghegan

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