Re: textarray option for file FDW

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> ... So now I'd like to add a 
> new option to it: "textarray". This option would require that the 
> foreign table have exactly one field, of type text[], and would compose 
> all the field strings read from the file for each record into the array 
> (however many there are).

Why is this a good thing?  It seems like it would accomplish little
except to defeat the SQL type system entirely.

			regards, tom lane