On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Dmitry Savenko <d...@dsavenko.com> wrote:

>
> and now it works! I think they should add casting to 'bytea' directly,
> such workarounds shouldn't be necessary.
>

Casting to bytea and counting the bytes is just as hackey, IMO.  If this
use-case wants to be officially supported the type itself should define
what "length/size" means and a function should be provided to extract that
value.  I have the impression that the content length is already part of
the stored data so really only the function would be needed.  I haven't
given it that much thought, and zero present research, so I may be
mis-remembering old threads.

​David J.

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