| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | John Lister <john(dot)lister-ps(at)kickstone(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Array types |
| Date: | 2009-04-07 19:13:39 |
| Message-ID: | b42b73150904071213i562aa28ame500cf111988f1b5@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "John Lister" <john(dot)lister-ps(at)kickstone(dot)com> writes:
>> Hi, using v8.3.5 and a number of client libraries (java, python, pgadmin) and playing about with arrays.
>> They all return arrays as text, is it possible to configure postgresql
>> to return an array in native form (does postgresql support such a
>> thing)?
>
> This is something the client code would request (or not). It would not
> be sensible to try to force it from the server side, since if the client
> doesn't request it it's likely that the client wouldn't understand the
> data format.
unless, of course, you are using libpqtypes :D
merlin
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