Re: Array constructor requires one argument

[Joe Conway <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:02:09AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > Define the data type of
> > > SELECT ARRAY[];
>
>
> > The same type as:
> > SELECT NULL;
>
>
> Hardly, because whatever type NULL has, it's not an array type.

Here's a link to the initial discussion on this topic:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-06/msg01195.php

Unless we can convince ourselves that array-of-UNKNOWN is not dangerous, 
I don't think this is easily solved.

Joe