>> + What I really need is a binary *short* object type.
>> I have heard rumors of a legendary "bytea" type that might
>> help me, but it doesn't appear to be documented anywhere,
>> so I hesitate to use it.
>>
>
> It's real and it's not going away. It is pretty poorly documented
> and doesn't have a wide variety of functions ... but hey, you can help
> improve that situation. This is an open source project after all ;-)
>
> regards, tom lane
I'll take a shot at improving the documentation for bytea. I'm hoping
documentation patches are accepted during beta though ;-)
Also, FWIW, 7.2 includes bytea support for LIKE, NOT LIKE, LIKE ESCAPE,
||, trim(), substring(), position(), length(), indexing, and various
comparators.
Joe