Accessing complex types

I'm really hoping someone can tell me I'm doing something wrong ...

I have a table that has a complex (user defined) type like this:

CREATE TYPE addr_phone AS (
    addr1 character varying(40),
    addr2 character varying(40),
    city character varying(40),
    state character(2),
    zip character(5),
    phone character(12))

Inserting and updating the table that contains such a type is no 
problem, but when I do a select, I get the complex "column" returned as 
one big string like this:

   '(a,b,c,"d ","e    ","f           ")'

Note that it looks superficially like a tuple but it isn't. I thought to 
be smart and use 'exec' to convert that to a tuple but the first three 
items aren't quoted.

I would have thought such a complex type would be returned as a list or 
a PgArray?

Anything to be done about this or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Michael



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