Re: Allowing postgresql to accept 0xff syntax for data types that it makes sense for?

Bill Moran wrote on 22.05.2015 18:57:
> Arrgh ... it's good that you're bringing this up, but you're making me
> realize that there's more to figure out than I originally thought ...
> My focus had been on it being used for BYTEA columns, but there _are_
> plenty of places in the code that do things like:

If this is only about a more compact format for BYTEA, the following is valid in Postgres:

   select '\xff'::bytea

It's not exactly what you are after, but maybe "good enough".