James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> TL> Carel Combrink <carel.combrink@gmail.com> writes:
>>> I am using a PostgreSQL 9.1 server and the following query is perfectly
>>> valid for a BYTEA type column:
>>> INSERT INTO files VALUES(18,'\x536f6d6520746573742062797465206172726179');
>>> But for a server running version 9.3 the above query fails with the
>>> following error:
>>> ERROR: array value must start with "{" or dimension information
>>> LINE 1: insert into files values(18,'\x504b030414000600080000002100e...
> TL> Works for me:
> Here, too when the column is a bytea. But in the quoted web thread, it
> says that he writes that the column is not a bytea, but rather a bytea[].
> So the question it seems he really wants to know is whether inserting a
> non array value to an array column changed from inserting the value to
> the first entry in the array to generating a syntax error.
Well, I get that same error from both 9.1 and current if I declare the
column as bytea[]. I think there's some other discrepancy we've not
been told about.
regards, tom lane
