Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes: > Second semi argument for using ARRAY keyword is a verbosity of > PL/pgSQL. So from this perspective a ARRAY should be minimally > optional and ensure, so expr result will be really a array. But with a > optional ARRAY keyword we leaving a simple enhancing in future (on > parser level).
No. If we are going to put a keyword there, it can't be optional. Making it optional would require it to be a fully reserved word --- and in the case of ARRAY, even that isn't good enough, because of the conflict with ARRAY[...] syntax. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers