Julien Rouhaud <rjuju...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 07:09:29PM +1000, Peter Smith wrote: >> Please search PG source code for "ScanData skey[1];" - there are >> dozens of precedents where other people felt the same as me for >> declaring single keys.
> AFAICT there are 73 occurences vs 62 of the "Scandata skey;". I don't think > there's a huge consensus for one over the other. Yeah, there's no real consensus about that. But in this case there's a strong reason to use skey[1]: it makes the patch a very safe one-liner. To convert to the other pattern would require touching more code. regards, tom lane