X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874B1D1B4F9 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:46:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [64.117.224.130]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03051-08 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 05:45:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB279D1B507 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 05:45:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mwynhau.demon.co.uk ([193.237.186.96] helo=mainbox.archonet.com) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1A79wT-0009GZ-0V; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 09:45:09 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mainbox.archonet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D244717004; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:45:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from client17.archonet.com (client17.archonet.com [192.168.1.17]) by mainbox.archonet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060F516349; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:45:06 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Huxton To: "Bill Pfeiffer" , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PG equivalent to Sybase varbinary Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:45:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310080945.06497.dev@archonet.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200310/92 X-Sequence-Number: 15492 On Monday 06 October 2003 15:40, Bill Pfeiffer wrote: > Anybody know what the Postgresql equivalent to a Sybase varbinary data type > is? I have a package that provides ddl to store a 40 byte/char? varbinary > column in a table and it is failing against postrgresql. Sounds like "bytea" to me - or have you rejected that? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd