Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:

> Is there some reason why we didn't call text 'clob' and bytea 'blob'?

At the time our types were created there was no standard defining the
other types.

> or at least add aliases?

Mapping clob to text might be OK, but blob and bytea have totally
different input formats.

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Peter Eisentraut   [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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