Re: type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever
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Msg-id 4AAF8018020000250002AFD6@gw.wicourts.gov
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In response to Re: type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever  (Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>)
Responses Re: type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever  (Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>)
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Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at> wrote:
> On Sonntag 13 September 2009 Michael Monnerie wrote:

>> I currently have no idea how to cast bytea to text. For this
>> purpose of searching through mails, it would be enough for
>> postgres to treat the bytea as text, and just search through it.
>> You can only find ascii chars then, but that's a limitation one
>> can live with.

> Ping?

Nothing here works for you?:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-string.html

I would have thought convert_from, possibly combined with convert,
would do it.

-Kevin

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