EBIHARA, Yuichiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a software that supports several RDBMSs including PostgreSQL.
>
> The software needs an ability to handle large objects and now it uses 'bytea' datatype for binary
> data and 'text' for text data.
> But for portability, I'd rather use BLOB and CLOB defined by the SQL standards indeed.
>
> Is there any plan to support BLOB and CLOB in future releases?
>
Looking at the spec, and postgresql's implementation, I can't see much
reason you couldn't just use a domain to declare that a bytea is a blob
and varchar is a clob.
Unless there's some spefici thing you need I'm not seeing.