Re: PL/Python adding support for multi-dimensional arrays

On 9/23/16 2:42 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> How do we handle single-dimensional arrays of composite types at the
> moment? At a quick glance, it seems that the composite types are just
> treated like strings, when they're in an array. That's probably OK, but
> it means that there's nothing special about composite types in
> multi-dimensional arrays. In any case, we should mention that in the docs.

That is how they're handled, but I'd really like to change that. I've 
held off because I don't know how to handle the backwards 
incompatibility that would introduce. (I've been wondering if we might 
add a facility to allow specifying default TRANSFORMs that should be 
used for specific data types in specific languages.)

The converse case (a composite with arrays) suffers the same problem 
(array is just treated as a string).
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