| From: | Leo Fink <leo(dot)fink(at)gmx(dot)net> | 
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| To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: Array of Arrays of int | 
| Date: | 2005-05-02 04:26:28 | 
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Hello Tom.
Am 02.05.2005 um 06:11 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Leo Fink <leo(dot)fink(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> Why does
>> select array(select array[1,2]);
>> give me an error: "could not find array type for data type integer[]"?
>
> We don't do arrays of arrays.  You seem to be hoping for a 2-D array,
> which is something fundamentally different (even though some 
> programming
> languages consider them the same ;-))
Actually, I don't. In my application I can work around the problem by 
using an array of string representations of these pairs, or by using 
two arrays of ints. I just thought that was less elegant and I was 
missing something obvious.
Thanks for your quick response.
Best,
Leo
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