Re: updated WIP: arrays of composites

"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> * I'm a bit concerned about dump order.  If a user wants to create
> types named "foo" and "_foo", he can, but it will only work if he
> makes "_foo" first --- else the derived type for foo is in the way.
> Since pg_dump has no clue about that constraint, it might easily
> dump "foo" first leading to an unrestorable dump.  The most usable
> solution would be to auto-rename previously created array types,
> but I dunno how implementable that would be.

BTW, why exactly do we need array types to have names at all? The only
user-visible way to refer to these types is always by foo[] isn't it?

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