| From: | Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Jason Orendorff <jason(at)jorendorff(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: storing binary data |
| Date: | 2001-10-24 06:53:07 |
| Message-ID: | 3BD66553.2000706@home.com |
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>> + What I really need is a binary *short* object type.
>> I have heard rumors of a legendary "bytea" type that might
>> help me, but it doesn't appear to be documented anywhere,
>> so I hesitate to use it.
>>
>
> It's real and it's not going away. It is pretty poorly documented
> and doesn't have a wide variety of functions ... but hey, you can help
> improve that situation. This is an open source project after all ;-)
>
> regards, tom lane
I'll take a shot at improving the documentation for bytea. I'm hoping
documentation patches are accepted during beta though ;-)
Also, FWIW, 7.2 includes bytea support for LIKE, NOT LIKE, LIKE ESCAPE,
||, trim(), substring(), position(), length(), indexing, and various
comparators.
Joe
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