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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


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