Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 05:42:34PM +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
Why not simply a fixed number of bytes, i.e. byte(16) or octet(16)?
Hexadecimal is just a convenient human-readable representation.
Well, hex is much easier to deal with in many regards than raw bytes,
though. But yes, the idea is that you'd just store raw bytes on disk.
byte or octet would work fine if they existed.
IIRC, Oracle actually uses the term RAW. It makes sense I think. No
conversion applied, no nothing. Just simple raw data.
- thomas
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