On Jun 17, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Florian Pflug wrote: > How about turning it into a function > hstore hstore(hstore, text[]) > instead?
I just searched through the 2008 spec for a slice/subset operator and came up empty. It seems to define a bunch of predicates for multisets, but not much for arrays. And looking again at the options, I'm *okay* with %, but not keen on %> anymore (I could see a future where %> and <% it as complement @> and <@ by confirming the presence of keys in an hstore: bool = hstore %> text[]; So, frankly, I'm coming back to what Florian has suggested here. What about calling it slice? hstore = slice(hstore, text[]); It'd be nice to have one for arrays, too: anyarray[] = slice(anyarray[], int[]); An operator could always be added later if a good one appeared. Okay, no more bikeshedding for me on this issue. I'm covered in paint. Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers