Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with SMTP id LAA02118 for postgres-dist; Tue, 29 Mar 1994 11:22:22 -0800 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199403291922.LAA02118@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.149.14]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with ESMTP id LAA02109 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 1994 11:22:21 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.1B) with SMTP id LAA00492; Tue, 29 Mar 1994 11:21:58 -0800 Message-Id: <199403291921.LAA00492@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) To: Dave Scott Cc: POSTGRES@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: arrays of arrays Reply-To: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 29 Mar 1994 16:27:24 GMT <0097C2A8.F7F609A0.12809@vaxd.dct.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 11:21:58 -0800 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-dist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 11:22:22 -0800 Resent-XMts: smtp Dave Scott writes: > I'm attempting to create an application which is best modelled using arrays of > arrays. the best answer, i think, is to get 4.2 which has real multidimensional arrays. up side: you get N-dim arrays that you can access through the query language instead of a programming language. you also get syntax for array slicing and other cool stuff. down side: no one ever documented the internal format of the new arrays, which makes it tough to manipulate them in the backend. -- Paul M. Aoki | CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB | aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU | Berkeley, CA 94720 | ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki