On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Peter Eisentraut<peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Monday 27 July 2009 14:50:30 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> We've developed some code to implement fixed-length datatypes for well
>> known digest function output (MD5, SHA1 and the various SHA2 types).
>> These types have minimal overhead and are quite complete, including
>> btree and hash opclasses.
>>
> I think equipping bytea with a length restriction would be a very natural,
> simple, and useful addition. If we ever want to move the bytea type closer to
> the SQL standard blob type, this will need to happen anyway.
>
+1
merlin