Just run the regression tests on 6.1 and as I suspected the array bug
is still there. The regression test passes because the expected output
has been fixed to the *wrong* output.
As I have said before, I don't use arrays, so this doesn't affect me,
but it is very bad practice that this should be released with the
regression tests claiming that arrays work when they don't.
Please make sure that this is in the TODO list and for the next release
it really should be fixed or array functionality disabled.
The current (wrong) expected output is:
QUERY: SELECT * FROM arrtest;
a |b |c |d |e
- -----------+---------------+-------------+-----------------+-------------
{1,2,3,4,5}|{{{0,0},{1,2}}}|{} |{} |
{11,12,23} |{{3,4},{4,5}} |{"foobar"} |{{"elt1","elt2"}}|{"3.4","6.7"}
{} |{3,4} |{"foo","bar"}|{"bar","foo"} |
The correct output is:
QUERY: SELECT * FROM arrtest;
a b c d e
- ------------ ---------------------- -------------- ------------------ --------------
{1,2,3,4,5} {{{0,0}},{{1,2}}} {} {}
{11,12,23} {{{3},{4}},{{4},{5}}} {"foobar"} {{"elt1","elt2"}} {"3.4","6.7"}
{} {{{3,4},{0,0}}} {"foo","bar"} {{"bar"},{"foo"}}
The problem comes in columns b and d which are 3D and 2D arrays.
The wrong output is munging the dimensionality of these arrays.
Surely the CVS logs can tell us where the bug was introduced. I'm
fairly sure it was somewhere between 1.02 and 1.08.
Andrew
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