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>I'll take a shot at improving the documentation for bytea. I'm hoping
>documentation patches are accepted during beta though ;-)
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>Also, FWIW, 7.2 includes bytea support for LIKE, NOT LIKE, LIKE ESCAPE,
>||, trim(), substring(), position(), length(), indexing, and various
>comparators.
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Cool!
Would it be practical to use substring for retrieving chunks of binary data
in manageable sizes? Or would the overheads be too high?
Cheerio,
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