On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:09:21PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Unless we can convince ourselves that array-of-UNKNOWN is not dangerous, > > I don't think this is easily solved. > > One possibility that might handle Martijn's problem is to allow the > construct > > ARRAY[]::type[] > > that is, you can have an empty ARRAY construct only if you immediately > cast it to a specific array type. The application typically knows what > type the data is anyway, and if it just always plasters on the cast then > the syntax would work regardless of whether there are any elements or not.
+1 for doing it this way :) Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/
