Tom, > This is documented behavior for arrays: > http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/arrays.html#AEN5764 > and has been that way for a very long time. If we change it we will > break every array-using application on the planet, because it will > in fact be impossible to parse an array value unambiguously.
Ok, so "yes, it's inconsistent, but we don't want to break backwards compatibility." I can buy that ... -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
