>> + 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
