From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:02:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Cause ARRAY[] construct to return a NULL array, rather than raising an
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Cause ARRAY[] construct to return a NULL array, rather than raising an
error, if any input element is NULL.  This is not what we ultimately want,
but until arrays can have NULL elements, it will have to do.  Patch from
Joe Conway.
---

diff --git a/src/backend/executor/execQual.c b/src/backend/executor/execQual.c
index c65844b0f89..d2efab0e36f 100644
--- a/src/backend/executor/execQual.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/execQual.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/executor/execQual.c,v 1.136 2003/07/28 00:09:14 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/executor/execQual.c,v 1.137 2003/07/30 19:02:18 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -1603,6 +1603,10 @@ ExecEvalCase(CaseExprState *caseExpr, ExprContext *econtext,
 
 /* ----------------------------------------------------------------
  *		ExecEvalArray - ARRAY[] expressions
+ *
+ * NOTE: currently, if any input value is NULL then we return a NULL array,
+ * so the ARRAY[] construct can be considered strict.  Eventually this will
+ * change; when it does, be sure to fix contain_nonstrict_functions().
  * ----------------------------------------------------------------
  */
 static Datum
@@ -1642,9 +1646,10 @@ ExecEvalArray(ArrayExprState *astate, ExprContext *econtext,
 
 			dvalues[i++] = ExecEvalExpr(e, econtext, &eisnull, NULL);
 			if (eisnull)
-				ereport(ERROR,
-						(errcode(ERRCODE_NULL_VALUE_NOT_ALLOWED),
-						 errmsg("arrays cannot have NULL elements")));
+			{
+				*isNull = true;
+				return (Datum) 0;
+			}
 		}
 
 		/* setup for 1-D array of the given length */
@@ -1686,9 +1691,10 @@ ExecEvalArray(ArrayExprState *astate, ExprContext *econtext,
 
 			arraydatum = ExecEvalExpr(e, econtext, &eisnull, NULL);
 			if (eisnull)
-				ereport(ERROR,
-						(errcode(ERRCODE_NULL_VALUE_NOT_ALLOWED),
-						 errmsg("arrays cannot have NULL elements")));
+			{
+				*isNull = true;
+				return (Datum) 0;
+			}
 
 			array = DatumGetArrayTypeP(arraydatum);