Re: Supporting NULL elements in arrays

> On trying to recompile things, I find that contrib/intarray is broken
> by this change, because it's using the flags field for its own purposes:
> 
> /*
>  * flags for gist__int_ops, use ArrayType->flags
>  * which is unused (see array.h)
>  */
> #define LEAFKEY        (1<<31)
> #define ISLEAFKEY(x)    ( ((ArrayType*)(x))->flags & LEAFKEY )
> 
> It seems likely that intarray is going to need some rather significant
> work anyway to deal with null elements, so this seems to me to be not
> necessarily a fatal objection.  But why exactly does intarray need to
> play games with the contents of an array value?

Sorry, intarray was first our module for PgSQL. I'll remove usage of 
ArrayType->flags soon.


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