Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Decibel! wrote:
>> If you do this *please* post it. I really think it would be worth
>> while for us to have fixed-size data types for common forms of binary
>> data; MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 come to mind.
> Why do you think it would be worth while?
Given that the overhead for short bytea values is now only one byte
not four-plus-padding, the argument for such types is surely a lot
weaker than it was before 8.3.
regards, tom lane
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