Re: [HACKERS] Feature Request: Multi-octet raw

2005-12-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:54:42PM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > It would be nice if Postgresql supported multi-octet raw data. Certainly a > lot of what you would do with it would be similar to bytea, but the basic > string functions would be overloaded so that the unit of work would be a > mu

[HACKERS] Feature Request: Multi-octet raw

2005-12-06 Thread Trent Shipley
It would be nice if Postgresql supported multi-octet raw data. Certainly a lot of what you would do with it would be similar to bytea, but the basic string functions would be overloaded so that the unit of work would be a multi-octet word. Multi-octet instances could be cast to bytea when on