well, (smile) I didn't say *I* saw violation of FNF as an objection. I
think my statement is true - many would see it as a violation of FNF.
Many others like you might argue differently.
I first got into this business nearly 20 years ago when I came to
realise the severe limitations of the rela
Andrew wrote:
> It's in the SQL99 standard. There's nothing forcing you to use them -
I
> am a (possibly) old-fashioned data architect, so I never use them ;-)
> SQL99 actually allows you to use more or less arbitrary composite
types
> as columns (although Pg currently doesn't) - many would argu
It's in the SQL99 standard. There's nothing forcing you to use them - I
am a (possibly) old-fashioned data architect, so I never use them ;-)
SQL99 actually allows you to use more or less arbitrary composite types
as columns (although Pg currently doesn't) - many would argue that this
violates
Merlin Moncure wrote:
Dear hackers,
Do you think there would be any use for an aggregate which returns an
array of the aggregated (usually simple) type? Has this already been
done by anyone? I looked at the source and noticed that for each
inserted item, the array utility functions perfor
Merlin Moncure wrote:
What do you think about the other question about an
'array creating aggregate', is that a useful contribution?
Hmm, either I'm not understanding you, or you're not understanding me ;-)
First, see contrib/intagg.
Second, the following works in 7.4devel:
-- create test data for
Joe Conway wrote:
> > Do you think there would be any use for an aggregate which returns
an
> > array of the aggregated (usually simple) type?
>What exactly have you looked at? In current cvs there is array_append
>and array_cat. There *was* array_accum, but that was yanked due to an
>objectio
Merlin Moncure wrote:
Dear hackers,
Do you think there would be any use for an aggregate which returns an
array of the aggregated (usually simple) type? Has this already been
done by anyone? I looked at the source and noticed that for each
inserted item, the array utility functions perform a de