On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Steve Crawford <scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com> wrote: > Although it might cause a fair amount of backward-compatibility trouble, the > string representation could either use NULL to represent a null element as > is allowed in other contexts or require that empty-string elements be > represented as "" to differentiate ,"", (empty-string element) from ,, (null > element).
That would cause a substantial amount of grief to people who might not want that behavior, though. I use these functions for creating human-readable output, not for serialization. Simple, predictable behavior is very important. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
