Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net> writes:
> My confusion was from:
> clayia=# select '{''joe'', ''bob'' }';
> ?column?
> -----------------
> {'joe', 'bob' }
> (1 row)
> It does return an array of string, or so it looks.
Yeah, it's not obvious that those quote marks are really data
characters. I wonder whether we could get away with tweaking array_out
to consider single-quote marks as being grounds for quoting an array
element. Then you would have seen a result like
?column?
---------------------
{"'joe'", "'bob'"}
which might at least have given you an inkling of what was happening.
regards, tom lane
