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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: Praveen Mamnani <pmamnani@cs.nmsu.edu>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: bytea ?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 12:58:22 -0700
Message-ID: <199410101958.MAA05308@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9410090244.AA00927@chimayo>

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

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