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        </row>
  
        <row>
+        <entry><type>bytea</type></entry>
+        <entry></entry>
+        <entry>binary data</entry>
+       </row>
+ 
+       <row>
         <entry><type>character(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
         <entry><type>char(<replaceable>n</replaceable>)</type></entry>
         <entry>fixed-length character string</entry>
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  	<entry>text</entry>
  	<entry>Variable unlimited length</entry>
         </row>
!       </tbody>
       </tgroup>
      </table>
  
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  	<entry>text</entry>
  	<entry>Variable unlimited length</entry>
         </row>
!         <row>
! 	<entry>bytea</entry>
! 	<entry>binary data</entry>
!        </row>
!      </tbody>
       </tgroup>
      </table>
  
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      does not require an explicit declared upper limit on the size of
      the string.  Although the type <type>text</type> is not in the SQL
      standard, many other RDBMS packages have it as well.
+    </para>
+ 
+    <para>
+     The <type>bytea</type> data type allows storage of binary data,
+     specifically allowing storage of NULLs which are entered as
+     <literal>'\\000'</>. The first backslash is interpreted by the
+     single quotes, and the second is recognized by <type>bytea</> and
+     preceeds a three digit octal value. For a similar reason, a
+     backslash must be entered into a field as <literal>'\\\\'</> or
+     <literal>'\\134'</>. You may also have to escape line feeds and
+     carriage return if your interface automatically translates these. It
+     can store values of any length. <type>Bytea</> is a non-standard
+     data type.
     </para>
  
     <para>