Re: How to convert HEX to ASCII?

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2011/12/2 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org> wrote:
>>> Sorry, but AFAICT this makes a mess of encodings and only works by
>>> pure luck. The server thinks it's sending the client LATIN1 text, but
>>> it's actually UTF8-encoded and the last decoding step is done by your
>>> terminal.
>>
>> yup -- your're right -- what a coincidence!  I still prefer the 1
>> liner sql variant vs plpgsql loop though.  nicely done.
>
> so bytea_agg - one param aggregate has sense
>
> it's very easy to implement it

yup:

create aggregate bytea_agg (bytea)
(
sfunc=byteacat,
stype=bytea
);

merlin