> Also trying to define the _varchar or _bpchar types fails, so it seems
> that the conversion from 6.2 to 6.4 is not possible for many data
> types. Any suggestion?
That sucks. afaik the only data types affected are the fixed-maximum
with variable-length strings. There was a comment in gram.y from Jolly
regarding the possibility for allowing bpchar and varchar into arrays,
though she explicitly disallowed it. I had thought that this code is
still in effect.
I'm not certain how much you have looked at this, but the leading
underscore is a Postgres convention for array data types. The trick to
allowing bpchar, varchar, and perhaps numeric types into arrays is
passing along the element dimensions. I haven't looked at whether that
already happens.
In the meantime, you can try using the text type instead. I know it
doesn't have an 8-byte maximum length, but it is allowed in arrays...
- Tom
