I can confirm that this is fixed in 7.0, I believe by Tom Lane.
> This was reported as a bug with the Debian package of 6.3.2; the same
> behaviour is still present in 6.4.
>
> bray=> create table foo ( t text[]);
> CREATE
> bray=> insert into foo values ( '{"a"}');
> INSERT 201354 1
> bray=> insert into foo values ( '{"a","b"}');
> INSERT 201355 1
> bray=> insert into foo values ( '{"a","b","c"}');
> INSERT 201356 1
> bray=> select * from foo;
> t
> -------------
> {"a"}
> {"a","b"}
> {"a","b","c"}
> (3 rows)
>
> bray=> select t[1] from foo;
> ERROR: type name lookup of t failed
> bray=> select * from foo;
> t
> -------------
> {"a"}
> {"a","b"}
> {"a","b","c"}
> (3 rows)
>
> bray=> select foo.t[1] from foo;
> t
> -
> a
> a
> a
> (3 rows)
>
> bray=> select count(foo.t[1]) from foo;
> pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.
>
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> time of need." Hebrews 4:16
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