Re: Feature Request: Multi-octet raw

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:54:42PM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> It would be nice if Postgresql supported multi-octet raw data. Certainly a
> lot of what you would do with it would be similar to bytea, but the basic
> string functions would be overloaded so that the unit of work would be a
> multi-octet word.

Well, PostgreSQL allows you to create your own types so you could just
make one that does what you want. The only tricky part would be the
syntax on creation because user-defined types can't take parameters.
OTOH, maybe by the time someone writes the code for such a type the
details will have been worked out.

Have a nice day,
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