Re: patch: bytea_agg

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: patch: bytea_agg
Date: 2011-12-23 21:48:56
Message-ID: 4EF4A2E802000025000440D7@gw.wicourts.gov
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Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> maybe we can introduce a synonym type for bytea - like "binary
> string" or "bstring".

The standard mentions these names for binary strings:

BINARY, BINARY VARYING, or BINARY LARGE OBJECT

which have a certain symmetry with:

CHARACTER, CHARACTER VARYING, and CHARACTER
LARGE OBJECT

-Kevin

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