Re: Does Postgres support BLOB datatypes? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Does Postgres support BLOB datatypes?
Date
Msg-id 200201082238.g08Mc8206472@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Does Postgres support BLOB datatypes?  (Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general@dynworks.com>)
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Jeff Davis wrote:
> A quote from the mysql.com docs:
>
> "The only difference between BLOB and TEXT types is that sorting and
> comparison is performed in case-sensitive fashion for BLOB values and
> case-insensitive fashion for TEXT values. In other words, a TEXT is a
> case-insensitive BLOB."

We do not have case-sensitive distinctions.  We are always
case-sensitive unless you use a case-insisitive operator or a function
call.


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