Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Dear hackers,
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> Do you think there would be any use for an aggregate which returns an
> array of the aggregated (usually simple) type? Has this already been
> done by anyone? I looked at the source and noticed that for each
> inserted item, the array utility functions perform a deep copy of the
> entire array (plus a reallocation). Normally, this is no big deal,
> but if executed in the query stage, it could be kind of slow. I also
> noticed that null values inside is an item on the todo list. Is
> anybody currently working on this?
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> Merlin
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I got another question to this:
why does PostgreSQL support Arrays in the first place?
For my taste, its a very messy concept...
Regards,
Dani