Tom Davies <tgdavies@gmail.com> writes:
> On 16/01/2008, at 2:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> You definitely should not expect to convert the names to integers.
> Presumably you can convert them to 96 bit integers? i.e. they are
> always strings of hex characters?
You could, but in most scripting languages I can think of, it'd be
a lot easier just to treat them as strings.
regards, tom lane