Re: pg_dump of regression (again)

At 11:44 14/09/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> The problem is the "numeric[]" type.
>
>numeric[] is a correct display of the type (and more intelligible than
>_numeric IMHO), but quoting it is not correct.  If you are feeding the
>output of format_type through something that believes it's quoting a
>single identifier, you are going to have lots of problems.  It looks
>to me like format_type will supply quotes when needed, so you shouldn't
>add more.

You're quite right - I left the original pg_dump ID quoting stuff in place.


>So you have to give the raw type name, no fancy fandangoes ...

OK - I'll use typname in CREATE AGGREGATE, and see how it hangs together.

Do you know if the type parser is invoked in function declarations? If not
I probably just need to limit use of format_type to table declarations.



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