Hi Ryo-san, > # Please call me Ryo. Matsumura is too long.
Thanks. > In Pro*C, the data should be represented as hex format C string. Just to clarify, there is no special datatype for binary data? > bytea as a type of table definition may correspond to BLOB in the > standard. Would we prefer to add a blob datatype then? > It seems that there is no defact and no product following to the > standards. > I wonder whether bytea should follow to the standard completely or > follow to existing varchar for usability. Do you see any disadvantage of following the standard? I don't really see where the usability drawback is. In general I would prefer being as close to the standard as reasonably possible. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
