Re: [BUGS] casting strings to multidimensional arrays yields strange results

Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> Negative lower bound indicies now work also, and array_out will always
> output explicit dimensions for an array with any dimension having a
> lower bound of other than one.

Seems reasonable to me.

> Any thoughts on whether or not to apply this to 7.4?

I would say not; it's a sufficiently large change that it will doubtless
break a few people's applications. It's better to do such things at
major version revs. People don't expect to have to do application
compatibility testing on bug-fix updates. Also, the base bug (lack of
dimension info from array_out) has existed long enough that I don't
think there is great urgency about getting the fix into the field...

regards, tom lane