On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Jeremy Evans <jeremyeva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've added a pg_array extension to Sequel with pretty decent support for
> PostgreSQL string/numeric arrays:
> https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel/commit/dc25a56e342cde055bac9da2...

> There is still a bit more work necessary to easily use PostgreSQL arrays
> with models, but this at least makes it easy for datasets.  Unlike the
> sequel_column_type_array extension, this supports more types of arrays, as
> well as multi-dimensional arrays.  As far as I know, it's the only ruby
> parser that supports multi-dimensional string arrays.  The string array
> parser is probably fairly slow, I may add a ragel-based parser to sequel_pg
> later if people are finding it to be a bottleneck (send ruby-prof output
> with your request).

> Anyway, if you are a PostgreSQL array user, please give this new extension a
> shot.  I'll be expanding on it to make it work nicely with models, and
> probably add another extension that makes it possible to use array operators
> without dropping to literal SQL.

> Thanks,
> Jeremy