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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Dave Scott <mcsmidcs@vaxd.dct.ac.uk>
Cc: POSTGRES@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: arrays of arrays
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 11:21:58 -0800
Message-ID: <199403291921.LAA00492@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0097C2A8.F7F609A0.12809@vaxd.dct.ac.uk>

Dave Scott <mcsmidcs@vaxd.dct.ac.uk> 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

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