Re: select statement against pg_stats returns inconsistent

Tom Lane wrote:
> Hoo, I'm surprised no one noticed this during 7.4 development/testing.
> The problem applies for any datatype that requires double alignment,
> which includes int8, float8, and timestamp as well as most of the
> geometric types. pg_statistic is declared as using type "anyarray",
> and this type really needs to be marked as requiring double alignment
> so that arrays of double-aligned datatypes will come out correctly.

anyarray has been defined this way since 7.3 -- any concerns there? I
see that back then pg_statistic used text[] instead of anyarray, so
perhaps not.

Joe