Add support for record id of bytes type #1152
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Add support for id columns of type
bytes
.Reason: when the primary key of a row is the output of a hashing function, the most natural data type used for the corresponding database column is simply raw bytes (e.g., the BYTEA data type in postgreSQL).
I have already successfully used this patched version of dedupe to deduplicate rows from a postgresSQL table having the primary column of type BYTEA.
Let me know if:
bytes
type_typing.py