Re: Proposal: new function array_init

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
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>> 2008/6/4 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
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>>> Huh?  That's completely nonsensical ... where will you determine the
>>> type of the array, if you don't have a sample element?
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>> it is nonsens in current postgres. But null array is castable to anyarray no?
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> If you mean an array of nulls, it still has to have an element type.
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Right, and since the fill element is thus not optional it should be in a 
fixed position in the argument list, ISTM, which can only mean it would 
come first.

cheers

andrew