Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 15 March 2014 16:21, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Postgres does not think of multi-D arrays as being arrays of arrays. >> This is problematic mainly because the SQL standard does think of them >> that way. I'm not sure if there's any hope of changing it though --- >> there's probably too much code that would be broken if we did. > Could we potentially introduce a GUC to get it to behave in a less > surprising way, and eventually make it the default? GUCs that change application-visible semantics are dangerous; they are not generally a good way out of tight spots. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general