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From: aoki@postgres.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
Subject: Re: variable length arrays
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 11:00:51 -0800
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ray@sherlock.Berkeley.EDU (Ray R. Larson) writes:
> {1,2} was OK and made sense {1} made sense but wasn't OK -- and I had a
> multi-megabyte file to load of some thousands of these that I didn't want 
> to edit by hand. Anyhow, everyone should probably ignore my cheap hack
> and quote all your array elements.

It's no more a cheap hack than the current fix (which is admittedly
pretty arbitrary...).  I was just explaining what the current stuff does 
and why.  I'm sure many people will *want* your semantics, in which case 
they can apply your patch.  It's probably better to accept {1} than to 
care about { } but since {1} was *already* broken and { } wasn't, I didn't
want to confuse people even more :-)

Sunita Sarawagi is highly and personally offended by the lack of 
multidimensional arrays and is rewriting the array code anyway ...
stay tuned :-)