Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
> On 15 March 2014 16:21, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Postgres does not think of multi-D arrays as being arrays of arrays.
>> This is problematic mainly because the SQL standard does think of them
>> that way. I'm not sure if there's any hope of changing it though ---
>> there's probably too much code that would be broken if we did.
> Could we potentially introduce a GUC to get it to behave in a less
> surprising way, and eventually make it the default?
GUCs that change application-visible semantics are dangerous; they are
not generally a good way out of tight spots.
regards, tom lane
