diff --git a/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c b/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c
index 172b8d1c4294c37ee36f3e056dcc0d24a4ae36a8..b86d687c9d02801de57e8a904ade1e68c16f4178 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c,v 1.24 1997/09/10 23:30:45 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/access/common/tupdesc.c,v 1.25 1997/09/10 23:57:49 momjian Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *	  some of the executor utility code such as "ExecTypeFromTL" should be
@@ -481,7 +481,6 @@ BuildDescForRelation(List *schema, char *relname)
 		arry = entry->typename->arrayBounds;
 		attisset = entry->typename->setof;
 
-		strNcpy(typename, entry->typename->name, NAMEDATALEN - 1);
 		if (arry != NIL)
 		{
 			/* array of XXX is _XXX */
@@ -489,7 +488,10 @@ BuildDescForRelation(List *schema, char *relname)
 			attdim = length(arry);
 		}
 		else
+		{
+			strNcpy(typename, entry->typename->name, NAMEDATALEN - 1);
 			attdim = 0;
+		}
 
 		if (!TupleDescInitEntry(desc, attnum, attname,
 								typename, attdim, attisset))