Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with SMTP id MAA20995 for postgres-redist; Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:58:34 -0700 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199410101958.MAA20995@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.37.53]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.3) with ESMTP id MAA20985 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:58:33 -0700 Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.9/8.1B) with SMTP id MAA05308; Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:58:28 -0700 Message-Id: <199410101958.MAA05308@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost.Berkeley.EDU didn't use HELO protocol From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) To: pmamnani@cs.nmsu.edu (Praveen Mamnani) Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: bytea ? Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki) In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 8 Oct 1994 20:44:05 +0700 <9410090244.AA00927@chimayo> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 12:58:22 -0700 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-redist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 12:58:34 -0700 Resent-XMts: smtp pmamnani@cs.nmsu.edu (Praveen Mamnani) writes: > I was converting some programs from SQL to Postgres. SQl uses data type > char(n) where n could be <255. Postgres has char4,8, and 16. How do > I define char of size n in postgres ? you write a new data type with its operators, functions, access method hooks, etc. -- Paul M. Aoki | University of California at Berkeley aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU | Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) | Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 ============================================================================== To add/remove yourself to/from the POSTGRES mailing list: send mail with the subject line ADD or DEL to "postgres-request@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" If this fails, send mail to "post_questions@postgres.Berkeley.EDU" and a human will deal with it. DO NOT post to the "postgres" mailing list. ==============================================================================