Ron Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's all just background for my real question-- is there anything in the > standards (or elsewhere) that says you can't put binary(**) data into a char > field? When I changed the field to a bytea, processing time was > significantly reduced.
bytea is the right thing. char will not support null (zero) bytes in the data, and you may have character-set-encoding issues as well. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]