Re: Cast text to bytea

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Hi,

uups, why I wrote the originating mail to pgsql-admin? Sorry!

- -- Godshall Michael <Michael_Godshall(at)gmachs(dot)com> wrote:

> Have you seen this?
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-binary.html

yes, but this only describe the bytea type, not how to cast some text. Or I
missed something ;) ...

> Maybe you need some backslashes?

this also doesn't help:

odem=> SELECT 'abc'::text::bytea;
ERROR: Cannot cast type text to bytea
odem=> SELECT '\000'::text::bytea;
ERROR: Cannot cast type text to bytea

Ciao
Alvar

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