Bill Moran wrote on 22.05.2015 18:57:
Arrgh ... it's good that you're bringing this up, but you're making me realize that there's more to figure out than I originally thought ... My focus had been on it being used for BYTEA columns, but there _are_ plenty of places in the code that do things like:
If this is only about a more compact format for BYTEA, the following is valid in Postgres: select '\xff'::bytea It's not exactly what you are after, but maybe "good enough". -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general