>
>I'll take a shot at improving the documentation for bytea. I'm hoping 
>documentation patches are accepted during beta though ;-)
>
>Also, FWIW, 7.2 includes bytea support for LIKE, NOT LIKE, LIKE ESCAPE, 
>||, trim(), substring(), position(), length(), indexing, and various 
>comparators.
>

Cool!

Would it be practical to use substring for retrieving chunks of binary data
in manageable sizes? Or would the overheads be too high?

Cheerio,
Link.


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