Re: ERROR: cannot cast type text to bit varying - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Matt Miller
Subject Re: ERROR: cannot cast type text to bit varying
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Msg-id 1118358041.3596.54.camel@dbamm01-linux
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In response to Re: ERROR: cannot cast type text to bit varying  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@surnet.cl>)
List pgsql-general
> > I ended up writing a bunch of code to accomplish what I initially
> > thought would be just some casting and bitops on built-in types.

> I imagine you could have done something involving textout() and
> varbit_in(), like
>
> alvherre=# select varbit_in(textout(translate('YYNY', 'YN', '10')), 123::oid, 32);
>  varbit_in
> -----------
>  1101
> (1 fila)

Ah... This is more like it.  Thank you.

I'll explore this more tomorrow.  Are "varbit_in" and "textout"
documented?

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