On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "John Lister" <john.lister-ps@kickstone.com> writes:
>> Hi, using v8.3.5 and a number of client libraries (java, python, pgadmin) and playing about with arrays.
>> They all return arrays as text, is it possible to configure postgresql
>> to return an array in native form (does postgresql support such a
>> thing)?
>
> This is something the client code would request (or not). It would not
> be sensible to try to force it from the server side, since if the client
> doesn't request it it's likely that the client wouldn't understand the
> data format.
unless, of course, you are using libpqtypes :D
http://libpqtypes.esilo.com/
merlin