Tom Lane wrote:
>>An ideal solution would be to have a
>>"not-locale-affected-varchar" field type :)
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> If you're just storing ASCII then I think bytea might work for this.
> Do you need any actual text operations (like concatenation), or this
> just a store-and-retrieve field?
I've just tested bytea and it looks like a perfect solution - it supports:
- character-like syntax
- indexes
- uses indexes with LIKE 'x%' queries
- SUBSTRING()
That's good enough for us - it seems it's just what we need - a
string-like type with byte collation.
Thanks!
