Re: pg_class catalog question... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 05:42:34PM +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
>   
>> Why not simply a fixed number of bytes, i.e. byte(16) or octet(16)? 
>> Hexadecimal is just a convenient human-readable representation.
>>     
>
> Well, hex is much easier to deal with in many regards than raw bytes,
> though. But yes, the idea is that you'd just store raw bytes on disk.
> byte or octet would work fine if they existed.
>   
IIRC, Oracle actually uses the term RAW. It makes sense I think. No 
conversion applied, no nothing. Just simple raw data.

- thomas