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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Leo Fink <leo.fink@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Array of Arrays of int
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 00:11:06 -0400
Message-ID: <10431.1115007066@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Leo Fink <leo.fink@gmx.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 ;-))

			regards, tom lane



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