Re: [RFC] new digest datatypes, or generic fixed-len hex types?

On Wednesday 29 July 2009 20:16:48 decibel wrote:
> bytea doesn't cast well to and from text when you're dealing with hex
> data; you end up using the same amount of space as a varchar. What
> would probably work well is a hex datatype that internally works like
> bytea but requires that the input data is hex (I know you can use
> encode/decode, but that added step is a pain). A similar argument
> could be made for base64 encoded data.

There is a patch in the queue that adds hex input and output to bytea.