Re: Bytea binary compatible

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Here is a patch to make bytea binary compatible with other text data
> > types.  Comments?
>
> No way!  Unless you propose to make the text types null-safe (which
> would mean such nontrivial projects as replacing strcoll()).
>
> The fact that the storage formats are both struct varlena does not
> mean that these types are interchangeable.  I fail to see where it'd
> be a good idea to mark them binary-compatible, even if there weren't
> serious implementation issues.

OK, code backed out.  If the storage formats are the same, doesn't that
make them binary compatibile.  I know the NULL issue though.  I think I
see what you mean, that a text function can't operate on a bytea field.

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