> Duh, sorry. Got confused. I though you weren't the submitter, for some
> strange reason. Anyway, I see this in the code:
>
>
>>>+ /* Handle array types */
>>>+ if (typname[0] == '_')
>>>+ {
>>>+ isarray = true;
>>>+ typname++;
>>>+ }
>
>
> Do we know that is always true? What is the issue that 7.0 needs this
> and newer released don't, and how are we sure this will not break some
> strange cases in post-7.0 releases?
It's not a problem, since that code path is only ever executed when
dumping a 7.0 backend. It's in the MyFormatType function in pg_dump.c
that is used whenever the backend doesn't have its own format_type function.
Chris
