Re: Proposal: casts row to array and array to row

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2011/10/11 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What do you think about this idea?

It's a bad one.

>> Well, a ROW can contain values of different types; an ARRAY can't.

> yes, I know - but it should be problem only in few cases - when is not
> possible to cast a row field to array field.

This idea is basically the same as "data types don't matter", which is
not SQL-ish and certainly not Postgres-ish.
        regards, tom lane