"Raymond C. Rodgers" <sinful622(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The only difference I can see is that the quotes don't appear when the
> values returned don't contain white space, and do when white space is
> present.
That is per the definition of array output format:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/arrays.html#AEN5876
> Is there any way to force consistency? My PHP code currently is
> expecting quoted strings to be returned.
Better fix your PHP code.
regards, tom lane