Re: [RFC] new digest datatypes, or generic fixed-len hex types?

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Wasn't this proposed and rejected before? �(Or more to the point,
>> why'd you bother? �The advantage over bytea seems negligible.)

> well, one nice things about the fixed length types is that you can
> keep your table from needing a toast table when you have a bytea in
> it.

If you don't actually use the toast table, it doesn't cost anything very
noticeable ...
        regards, tom lane