Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Decibel! wrote: >> If you do this *please* post it. I really think it would be worth >> while for us to have fixed-size data types for common forms of binary >> data; MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 come to mind. > Why do you think it would be worth while? Given that the overhead for short bytea values is now only one byte not four-plus-padding, the argument for such types is surely a lot weaker than it was before 8.3. regards, tom lane
