Re: plpgsql: support identif%TYPE[], (from ToDo)

2009/7/28 Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:53:08PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I would to solve some points from ToDo. I began with TYPE [] support.
>> I thing, so this should be relative simple, but there are one issue.
>
> <snip>
>
>> My first idea is using word element:
>>
>> create or replace function x(a int[])
>> ...
>> declare f a%element;
>> begin
>> ...
>
> I would have thought:
>
> declare f a[0]%type;
>
> as in: the type of a[0]. Perhaps a[]%type but that seems less natural.
>

It's clean so a[0] means element of array, but why zero. PostgreSQL
array should to start from any int value :(. And this syntax is little
bit difficult parserable.

What do you thing about:

declare f array of a%type; x element of f%type;

??

regards
Pavel


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