Re: BUG #4638: Bug with Geometry in Array

"Bjoern Weitzig" <weitzig@supportgis.de> writes:
> I use arrays like "select array(select n from a)". This works well except of
> the case with geometry as datatype.

The geometry type intentionally uses ':' as the array delimiter.  It
seems like a good bet that the JDBC driver you're using doesn't expect
anything but ',' as array delimiter.  I checked with the postgis-devel
list and they recommend using the modified JDBC driver that's
distributed with postgis.
http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.3.6SVN/ch04.html#id2726248

            regards, tom lane