X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E5753420 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 01:11:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27040-01 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 04:11:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F50B533F2 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 01:11:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j424B6SS010432; Mon, 2 May 2005 00:11:06 -0400 (EDT) To: Leo Fink Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Array of Arrays of int In-reply-to: <178c0af58f0514c54835d2e0723c525a@gmx.net> References: <178c0af58f0514c54835d2e0723c525a@gmx.net> Comments: In-reply-to Leo Fink message dated "Mon, 02 May 2005 05:50:37 +0200" Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 00:11:06 -0400 Message-ID: <10431.1115007066@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.006 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200505/7 X-Sequence-Number: 21320 Leo Fink 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