Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Wasn't this proposed and rejected before? (Or more to the point,
>> why'd you bother? The advantage over bytea seems negligible.)
> well, one nice things about the fixed length types is that you can
> keep your table from needing a toast table when you have a bytea in
> it.
If you don't actually use the toast table, it doesn't cost anything very
noticeable ...
regards, tom lane