Fix handling of empty arrays in array_fill().

array_fill(..., array[0]) produced an empty array, which is probably
what users expect, but it was a one-dimensional zero-length array
which is not our standard representation of empty arrays.  Also, for
no very good reason, it rejected empty input arrays; that case should
be allowed and produce an empty output array.

In passing, remove the restriction that the input array(s) have lower
bound 1.  That seems rather pointless, and it would have needed extra
complexity to make the check deal with empty input arrays.

Per bug #14487 from Andrew Gierth.  It's been broken all along, so
back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170105152156.10135.64195@wrigleys.postgresql.org

2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out b/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
index 89f1be3318a..104523c2afb 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
+++ b/src/test/regress/expected/arrays.out
@@ -1295,16 +1295,43 @@ select array_fill('juhu'::text, array[3,3]);
  {{juhu,juhu,juhu},{juhu,juhu,juhu},{juhu,juhu,juhu}}
 (1 row)
 
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, array[0]) as a) ss;
+ a  | is_eq | array_dims 
+----+-------+------------
+ {} | t     | 
+(1 row)
+
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, '{}') as a) ss;
+ a  | is_eq | array_dims 
+----+-------+------------
+ {} | t     | 
+(1 row)
+
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, '{}', '{}') as a) ss;
+ a  | is_eq | array_dims 
+----+-------+------------
+ {} | t     | 
+(1 row)
+
 -- raise exception
 select array_fill(1, null, array[2,2]);
 ERROR:  dimension array or low bound array cannot be null
 select array_fill(1, array[2,2], null);
 ERROR:  dimension array or low bound array cannot be null
+select array_fill(1, array[2,2], '{}');
+ERROR:  wrong number of array subscripts
+DETAIL:  Low bound array has different size than dimensions array.
 select array_fill(1, array[3,3], array[1,1,1]);
 ERROR:  wrong number of array subscripts
 DETAIL:  Low bound array has different size than dimensions array.
 select array_fill(1, array[1,2,null]);
 ERROR:  dimension values cannot be null
+select array_fill(1, array[[1,2],[3,4]]);
+ERROR:  wrong number of array subscripts
+DETAIL:  Dimension array must be one dimensional.
 select string_to_array('1|2|3', '|');
  string_to_array 
 -----------------
diff --git a/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql b/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql
index d9f7cbfa8d2..54b0be7a7d7 100644
--- a/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql
+++ b/src/test/regress/sql/arrays.sql
@@ -383,11 +383,19 @@ select array_fill(7, array[3,3],array[2,2]);
 select array_fill(7, array[3,3]);
 select array_fill('juhu'::text, array[3,3],array[2,2]);
 select array_fill('juhu'::text, array[3,3]);
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, array[0]) as a) ss;
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, '{}') as a) ss;
+select a, a = '{}' as is_eq, array_dims(a)
+  from (select array_fill(42, '{}', '{}') as a) ss;
 -- raise exception
 select array_fill(1, null, array[2,2]);
 select array_fill(1, array[2,2], null);
+select array_fill(1, array[2,2], '{}');
 select array_fill(1, array[3,3], array[1,1,1]);
 select array_fill(1, array[1,2,null]);
+select array_fill(1, array[[1,2],[3,4]]);
 
 select string_to_array('1|2|3', '|');
 select string_to_array('1|2|3|', '|');