On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takah...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 03:04, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I am still not in favor of adding this syntax. >>> >>> I also don't like the syntax, but unfortunately, almost all of >>> them are in the SQL standard :-(. >> >> The standard specifies this syntax for arrays, or for multisets? > > Multisets. But I chose the same function name and syntax because > arrays *are* multisets by definition.
In math class, maybe. But in programming, no. Multiset is a datatype. Array is a different datatype. There is no reason why we need to clutter our parser with extra keywords to support a non-standard feature extension. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
