Re: cast bytea to text

Willy-Bas Loos wrote:

> ERROR: function decode(bytea, "unknown") does not exist
> SQL state: 42883
> Hint: No function matches the given name and argument types. You may
> need to
> add explicit type casts.
> Context: SQL function "bytea2text"

That's because the first parameter of decode() should be of type TEXT,
not bytea:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-binarystring.html#FUNCTIONS-BINARYSTRING-OTHER

Ray.

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