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2417	Support for binary type fields (aka: bytea in postgres and VARBINARY in mysql)	scanner@…		"I have a need of having fields that store small blips of binary information. In general this works fine with the CharField, however it will not work for all such fields. For example a datum that is just the NUL character, or a series of NUL characters. With postgres at least: ""Character strings disallow zero octets,""

These are not things like images or other such large amounts of data. They are typically fairly short (10 to 200 bytes).

For my purposes I created a small patch that adds a new field type that basically is a CharField except it uses the binary type on postgres and mysql.

Does the django project plan on supporting a binary type field, if so should I post my patch for this?
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