Alan McKay wrote: > So is this not simply easier to implement with a library of functions > to convert a string to binary and back? The representation format has nothing to do with making a range search efficiently use an index, though. Regards, David. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin