On 10/18/06, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> wrote:
> > I tested binary quite a bit and only found it to be a win if moving
> > blobs in and out of the database. On 'normal' tables of mixed fields
> > types of small size, it can actually be slower. Binary is a bit
> > faster for native types and bytea, and slower for character types.
>
> "native types"?
types operated on directly by the processor. int2, int4, int8, float4,
and float8, and their various aliases :).
in short, i think using binary for anything other than bytea is a
waste of effort/time, except for bytea.
merlin