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Re: patch: bytea_agg

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

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From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-12-23T21:48:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
 
> maybe we can introduce a synonym type for bytea - like "binary
> string" or "bstring".
 
The standard mentions these names for binary strings:
 
BINARY, BINARY VARYING, or BINARY LARGE OBJECT
 
which have a certain symmetry with:
 
CHARACTER, CHARACTER VARYING, and CHARACTER
LARGE OBJECT
 
-Kevin