Laravel Pgarray Laravel Package

Guidance for AI coding agents working on andreacolzani/laravel-pgarray. It records the architecture and the design decisions taken so far: follow them unless the maintainer explicitly asks otherwise. The code and the tests are the source of truth for the implementation; when this file and the...

Work with PostgreSQL array columns (text[], integer[], uuid[], jsonb[], vector[], geometry[] …) in Laravel using andreacolzani/laravel-pgarray. Activate when creating or altering array columns in migrations ($table->pgArray()), adding array casts to Eloquent models (AsStringArray, AsIntegerArray, AsPgArray::of() …), storing enums, value objects or JSON objects in arrays, encrypting or hashing array elements, querying arrays with @>, <@, && or appending with || (wherePgArrayContains(), wherePgArrayOverlaps(), pgArrayAppend() …), or debugging how array values are stored, parsed or compared.