On 9/10/16, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
> On 9/3/16 6:01 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
>> I am curious as to the use cases for other possibilities.
>
> A hex or base64 type might be interesting, should those ever get created...
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> Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
Hex or base64 are not data types. They are just different
representation types of binary sequences.
Even for bigints these representations are done after writing numbers
as byte sequences.
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Best regards,
Vitaly Burovoy