greetings,
previously (7.1.x), an array of text would be returned:
{"d","e","f"}
but w/ 7.3.3 i see:
{d,e,f}
there is mention of this in section 5.12 "Arrays" of the manual,
including the unfriendly consequence: callers must be able to handle
either case. my question is: why t
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:09:41 -0400
From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(a) So that numerics don't get quoted. (b) The original coding was
wrong, since its rule for deciding when to quote had nothing to do
with the contents of the string being quoted, and it could thus fail
to
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:11:52 -0400
From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That was what the pre-7.2 coding did, and it was broken. Types abstime
and "char" are counterexamples in one direction, and float8 and numeric
are counterexamples in the other. (And that's not even considerin
