On 10/15/07, Lee Keel <lee(dot)keel(at)uai(dot)com> wrote:
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> I am sorry to push this issue, but I have clients waiting on a solution for
> this. So, does the lack of response mean that I am going to have to find
> another approach? Or can this conversion be done in ppgsql\perl?
Does something like:
select encode('12346758'::bytea,'escape')::float
work?
Since I'm not sure what format your data is stored in I'm just guessing here.
Note that you could use get_byte and cycle through the offset to get
each byte as well.