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lindaq@aic.hrl.hac.com writes:
> Or for that matter, how do I pull in arrays of anything?

arrays in released versions of postgres are implemented using
struct varlena in the simplest way you can possibly imagine.
look in utils/adt/arrayfuncs.c to see how it's done.  arrays
of variable-length types must be walked by hand.

4.2 will have a much better interface that will be Very
Different, so modularize your array access code.  (no, i'm not 
going to try to describe it in advance.  it's a moving target
at this point.)
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