Re: a "catch all" type ... such a thing?

On Sep 9, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Eugene E. wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> Are there any data types that can hold pretty much any type of
>> character? UTF-16 isn't supported (or its missing from teh docs),
>> and UTF-8 doesn't appear to have a big enough range ...
>>
>
> PLEASE Note: type of caracter is generally not a matter of _datatype_

That said, perhaps BYTEA would work. Not exactly the same as some
kind of text string though, as you could only use the BYTEA functions
for data manipulation. The SQLASCII encoding is *very* accepting, but
has its own issues, which a look in the archives will provide more info.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com