Need help with decoding of sql array from WAL files version 7.4.17

<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I need to restore two records from a lost transaction and I am having only the WAL file, managed by
Postgresql7.4.17. The structure of records is:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial"> * Record 1: varchar(400)[] with exact 191 elements, where al least 185 elements are just “*” and at
most6 are string with length>1. Like this {first string,*,*,*,*,*,second string,…}</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial"> * Record 2: smallint[] with exact 191 elements, where every element is between [-1 and 8]. Like
this{-1,0,7,3,-1,-1,3,4,5,…}</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">Can anybody give me more information about the implementation of SQL arrays like:</span></font><p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">hexmarkers for the beginning, length, or ending of the array</span></font><p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">wayof encoding strings inside the array</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">someidea in which interval should be the size of the encoded array. Should
becorrect if I say that my first record is more than 191 bytes or not?</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">particulardocumentation for sql array encoding in the 7.4.17
implementation</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
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font-family:Arial">10x in advance for any answer!</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
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font-family:Arial">Andrew</span></font></div>