Re: proposal: support empty string as separator for string_to_array

2009/7/25 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> I have one idea, that should simplify string to char array
>> transformation. The base is idea: between every char is empty string,
>> so empty string is regular separator for string_to_array function.
>
> There already is a definition for what string_to_array does with an
> empty field separator, and that is not it.  So this change would possibly
> break existing applications.  It does not seem either intuitively
> correct or useful enough to justify that --- particularly seeing that
> there's already another way to get the effect.

I thing, so nobody use empty separator in string_to_array, because it
does nothing useful. Or do you know any case where empty separator
should be used? I am not. My argument for "some" non regexp based
function is fact, so this function should be very light and fast.
Faster than regexp.

Other way is one param string_to_array function. This function is not
defined yet, so we could to use it.

Regards
Pavel

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>                        regards, tom lane
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