Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:
On 1 Mar 2009, at 00:52, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
We seem to have acquired a cardinality() function with almost no
discussion, and it has semantics that are a bit surprising to me. I
should have thought cardinality(array) would be the total number of
elements in the array. Instead, it seems it is a synonym for
array_length(array,1). Is that *really* what the standard says?
any difference between array_upper(array,1), and cardinality ?
Standart just says something like:
cardinality (a collection):
- The number of elements in that collection.
- Those elements need not necessarily have distinct values.
- The objects to which this concept applies includes tables and the
values of collection types.
Well, I think that's a definition of the term as used in the standard,
rather than of a function. But in any case, I think it goes in the right
direction, and the semantics of our new function (as well as the docs)
are misleading.
I'm also a bit concerned that I could not find any real discussion of
this new function at all on this list, so our processes seem to have
slipped a bit.
cheers
andrew
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