Re: Multi-dimensional arrays

Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
> On 15 March 2014 16:21, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 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