Re: Beta freeze? (was Re: [HACKERS] array surprising behavior)

2004-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When is beta freeze supposed to happen? AFAIK, no date has been set at all. I doubt we'll even think about it until we see how the Windows port effort goes. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--

Beta freeze? (was Re: [HACKERS] array surprising behavior)

2004-02-04 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:06:29AM -0800, Joe Conway wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >I think this is most surprising behavior -- shouldn't the UPDATE raise > >an error? > > Surprising, but not new (probably has been there back to the Berkley > code), and has come up before on one of the lists (

Re: [HACKERS] array surprising behavior

2004-02-04 Thread Joe Conway
Alvaro Herrera wrote: I think this is most surprising behavior -- shouldn't the UPDATE raise an error? Surprising, but not new (probably has been there back to the Berkley code), and has come up before on one of the lists (I think it might even have been pgsql-bugs). regression=# select version(

[HACKERS] array surprising behavior

2004-02-04 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hi, I think this is most surprising behavior -- shouldn't the UPDATE raise an error? alvherre=# create table foo (a int[]); CREATE TABLE alvherre=# insert into foo values (null); INSERT 33649 1 alvherre=# update foo set a[3] = '42'; UPDATE 1 alvherre=# select a, a is null from foo; a | ?column?