Re: Proposal: new function array_init

"Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2008/6/4 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Huh?  That's completely nonsensical ... where will you determine the
>> type of the array, if you don't have a sample element?

> it is nonsens in current postgres. But null array is castable to anyarray no?

If you mean an array of nulls, it still has to have an element type.
        regards, tom lane