"Alan Pinstein" <apinst...@mac.com> writes:
>   ... hierarchy @> ARRAY(select hierarchy from
> feature where description ilike '%pool%this%') ...

> EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:
> - return 0 rows

> ACTUAL BEHAVIOR:
> ERROR:  array must be one-dimensional
> Possibly from:
> https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/replicator/browser/trunk/contrib/ltree/_ltree_op.c?rev=1905
>  line 46

> NOTES:
> This query worked in 8.1.x and started failing in 8.3.6 (only 2 versions I
> tested).

Hmm.  ltree has always had that ARR_NDIM == 1 check.  I think the reason
the behavior changed is that ARRAY(SELECT ...) used to return a NULL for
zero rows, and now it returns an empty (zero-dimensional) array.

I can see two reasonable ways to address this:

* Change the ltree test to reject only ARR_NDIM > 1.

* Drop the ARR_NDIM check altogether, and let it search any sort of
array.

I'm leaning to #2 myself.  However, there are probably other places with
the same kind of issue, and in some of them it might make more sense to
reject multidimensional arrays.

                        regards, tom lane

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