Re: Proposal: generate_iterator functions

On 10/18/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I don't much like either of those, because they seem misleading:
> what I'd expect from a function named that way is that it returns
> the *elements* of the array, not their subscripts.
>
> Come to think of it, do we have a way of doing that directly?  If you
> only care about accessing the array elements, it seems like dealing in
> the subscripts is just notational tedium.  Perhaps there should be
> array_expand(anyarray) returns setof anyelement, in addition to the
> subscript generation function.
>
> On the question of being too long, I could live with
> generate_subscripts().

how about array_iota?

merlin