Postgresql and pgAdmin III, what is character varying[]

pgadmin, postgresql, types

Solution

This means postgresql array type that allows to store multiple values in a single table column. I.e. bigint[] means just array of bigint.

Problem

When creating a table in pgAdmin, there are two data types list for most entries, such as the following examples, character varying, character varying[] or bigint, bigint[]. What is the significance of the data type followed by []?

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