On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
I am not advocating what others should do. But I know what I need my
DB to do. If I want it to store data that does not match puritanical
standards of textual storage, then it should allow me to...
It does allow that: store it as a BLOB, and then treat it as text in your
app.
Me personally, if I expect something to be text, I expect it to be valid
text.
---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
match
