On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> All Arrays in 9.0 and lower are strings, regardless of if they are
> comprised of composite types. Its not so much a bug as a limitation.
> Alexey Klyukin fixed this for 9.1 :-)
Oh?
dump
--------------------------
$VAR1 = { +
'that' => '5',+
'this' => '3' +
}; +
(1 row)
Time: 2.016 ms
dump
----------------------------------------------------
$VAR1 = bless( { +
'array' => [ +
{ +
'that' => '5', +
'this' => '3' +
} +
], +
'typeoid' => 16457 +
}, 'PostgreSQL::InServer::ARRAY' );+
(1 row)
Woo! Thanks!
> [ In 9.1 we could not make them straight perl arrayrefs as we needed
> to keep the string representation for backwards compatibility. What we
> did in 9.1 is overload the arrayref and string operations on blessed
> object so you can treat it as either. ]
Yep, awesome.
Best,
David
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