"John Lister" <john(dot)lister-ps(at)kickstone(dot)com> writes:
> Hi, using v8.3.5 and a number of client libraries (java, python, pgadmin) and playing about with arrays.
> They all return arrays as text, is it possible to configure postgresql
> to return an array in native form (does postgresql support such a
> thing)?
This is something the client code would request (or not). It would not
be sensible to try to force it from the server side, since if the client
doesn't request it it's likely that the client wouldn't understand the
data format.
regards, tom lane