Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers\(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays
Date: 2013-04-05 07:33:30
Message-ID: m2d2u9qvn9.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr
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Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Well for what it's worth I would expect cardinality() to return the
> total number of elements in the array (per ArrayGetNItems). It's
> consistent with the spec's identification of an array as a
> "collection". You can chunk the elements into dimensions however you
> want, but it's still a collection of elements, and the cardinality is
> still the number of elements.

+1

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support

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