> Okay. When you get back to the original issue, the gold is hidden in

> src/backend/optimizer/path/indxpath.c; see the "special indexable
> operators" stuff near the bottom of that file.  (It's a bit of a crock
> that this code is hardwired there, and not somehow accessed through a
> system catalog, but it's what we've got at the moment.)

The attached patch re-enables a bytea right hand argument (as compared
to a text right hand argument), and enables index usage, for bytea LIKE

Joe Conway