Re: proposal: searching in array function - array_position

Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2015-03-20 17:49 GMT+01:00 Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>:
>
> > There's an issue when the array's lower bound isn't 1:
> >
> > select array_offset('[2:4]={1,2,3}'::int[], 1);
> >  array_offset
> > --------------
> >             1
> > (1 row)
> >
> > whereas I would expect this to return 2. Similarly for
> > array_offsets(), so the offsets can be used as indexes into the
> > original array.
> >
>
> I am thinking, so it is ok - it returns a offset, not position.

So you can't use it as a subscript?  That sounds unfriendly.  Almost
every function using this will be subtly broken.

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