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Re: Data Type questions
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: September 17, 2017 10:48AM

You need to read the manual chapter on data types.

In the language of data types, "binary" does not refer to allowing two choices; rather, it's the name for storing strings "raw" ie as octet sequences

Yes/No columns are best implemented as boolean or enum('y','n').

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