On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 14:52:41 +0100,
Stephen Quinney <stephen(dot)quinney(at)computing-services(dot)oxford(dot)ac(dot)uk> wrote:
>
> I have searched around but I cannot see any standard way in PostgreSQL
> to convert from an integer into a binary representation.
>
> Now I have an algorithm to do it so I could write an SQL function, I
> guess. If there's a standard way to do it though that would be quite nice.
There doesn't seem to currently be a function that does this. to_char
would be the logical place since that is what is used to convert various
numeric types to strings with a decimal representation.