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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-04-09 17:39:50 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-04-09 17:39:50 +0000
commit06e2757277e746fde9eeca14a86f87b7a61ff5b7 (patch)
tree258ff78625baf55b07e35b8ea7fcd993d1482633 /doc/src
parent78f58f0f70e0b6542a8ecb4e3ceaf4d41cf58cb3 (diff)
Remove SQL-compatibility function cardinality(). It is not exactly clear
how this ought to behave for multi-dimensional arrays. Per discussion, not having it at all seems better than having it with what might prove to be the wrong behavior. We can always add it later when we have consensus on the correct behavior.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/func.sgml18
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release.sgml7
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index f42f3e93412..5c3580aec68 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.475 2009/04/07 00:31:25 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.476 2009/04/09 17:39:47 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
@@ -9369,9 +9369,6 @@ SELECT NULLIF(value, '(none)') ...
<primary>array_upper</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
- <primary>cardinality</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm>
<primary>string_to_array</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
@@ -9506,19 +9503,6 @@ SELECT NULLIF(value, '(none)') ...
<row>
<entry>
<literal>
- <function>cardinality</function>(<type>anyarray</type>)
- </literal>
- </entry>
- <entry><type>int</type></entry>
- <entry>returns the length of the first dimension of the array
- (special case of <function>array_length</function> for SQL
- compatibility)</entry>
- <entry><literal>cardinality(array[1,2,3])</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>3</literal></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>
- <literal>
<function>string_to_array</function>(<type>text</type>, <type>text</type>)
</literal>
</entry>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index acd2786caad..a13828d52c9 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.624 2009/04/07 21:30:01 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.625 2009/04/09 17:39:47 tgl Exp $ -->
<!--
Typical markup:
@@ -1624,11 +1624,6 @@ do it for earlier branch release files.
of an array for the specified dimensions (Jim Nasby, Robert
Haas, Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
-
- <para>
- Also add identically-functioning <acronym>SQL</>-standard
- function <function>cardinality()</>.
- </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>