Re: [SQL] BINARY and BINARY VARYING datatypes in PostgreSQL

2011-05-03 Thread Grzegorz Szpetkowski
Thank you for comprehensive answer. You are right, it is better to implement what users really need in their work, but I believe that people who writing SQL Standard want to give it pragmatic and usable. Regards, Grzegorz Szpetkowski 2011/5/3 Susanne Ebrecht : > On 02.05.2011 12:46, Grzegorz Szp

Re: [SQL] BINARY and BINARY VARYING datatypes in PostgreSQL

2011-05-03 Thread Susanne Ebrecht
On 02.05.2011 12:46, Grzegorz Szpetkowski wrote: I know that BIT and BIT VARYING types were deleted from SQL:2003 and there are "old new" BINARY, BINARY VARYING in SQL:2008. I have two question: 1) Are these types technically the same (I mean implementation things) ? 2) Is PostgreSQL aim to supp

[SQL] BINARY and BINARY VARYING datatypes in PostgreSQL

2011-05-02 Thread Grzegorz Szpetkowski
I know that BIT and BIT VARYING types were deleted from SQL:2003 and there are "old new" BINARY, BINARY VARYING in SQL:2008. I have two question: 1) Are these types technically the same (I mean implementation things) ? 2) Is PostgreSQL aim to support BINARY, BINARY VARYING in 9.1 and leave BIT and