Re: Array with a lower bound>1, PostgreSQL 8.3.6

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:07:46PM +0100, Thomas Jacob wrote:

> > Given arbitrary labels we don't speak about mapping
> > PostgreSQL arrays to Python lists-of-lists anymore, I would
> > therefore suggest mapping non-"natural" arrays to ordered
> > (?) dicts-of-dicts with integer keys.
> 
> That would probably be easiest and most memory efficient, but
> I think it would also be bit awkward to have different to get different
> types depending on the value of the column, and it would probably
> break old code.
> 
> Would it be possible to have a configurable type adaptor 
> (don't really what those are yet), so that people could choose
> which behavior they want? Lists or dicts of dicts?

Sure.

Karsten
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