User-defined types

Hello,

I'm trying to write a PL/PgSQL function whose sole parameter is an
array whose element type is a type that I've created. For example:

CREATE TYPE test_type AS (x bigint, y bigint);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION array_test (test_type[]) ...

According to the 7.4 docs,

"Whenever a user-defined base data type is created, PostgreSQL
automatically creates an associated array type, whose name consists
of the base type's name prepended with an underscore. The parser
understands this naming convention, and translates requests for
columns of type foo[] into requests for type _foo. The
implicitly-created array type is variable length and uses the
built-in input and output functions array_in and array_out."

However,

mydb=# SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pg_type WHERE typname = '_test_type';
count
-------
0
(1 row)

Am I missing something? Thanks for your time.

I'm running PostgreSQL 7.4.5.

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