2013/3/21 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > Brendan Jurd <dire...@gmail.com> writes: >> While I was working on my empty array patch I was frequently irritated >> by the absence of an array_length(anyarray). The same goes for >> array_upper and array_lower. Most of the time when I work with >> arrays, they are 1-D, and it's inelegant to having to specify which >> dimension I mean when there is only one to choose from. > >> The question I have (and would appreciate your input on) is how such >> single-argument variants should behave when operating on an array with >> multiple dimensions? > > I'm not entirely convinced that this is a good idea, but if we're going > to allow it I would argue that "array_length(a)" should be defined as > "array_length(a, 1)". The other possibilities are too complicated to > explain in as few words. >
exactly +1 Pavel > 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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers