Re: what is wrong with data type 'array' ?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jack Dull" <jack_dull(at)sina(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: what is wrong with data type 'array' ?
Date: 2003-04-11 20:41:47
Message-ID: 13574.1050093707@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jack Dull" <jack_dull(at)sina(dot)com> writes:
> ); I was wondering if PostgreSQL really supports multidimensional array
> with more than tow dimensions?

It does, but they aren't considered a fundamentally different datatype
from single-dimensional arrays. Writing extra '[]' pairs in the CREATE
TABLE is just syntactic sugar.

regards, tom lane

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