"Eric B.Ridge" <ebr(at)tcdi(dot)com> writes:
> So now my question is, since postgres doesn't support 2D (or N-D)
> arrays, shouldn't the above produce some kind of syntax error?
Postgres' view of arrays is inherited from APL, I think: all arrays
of the same element type are the same datatype regardless of
dimensionality. We do have N-dimensional arrays, for N up to whatever
the arbitrary MAXDIM constant is. See the examples in the User's Guide.
regards, tom lane