Re: Is there a function for Converting a Decimal into BINARY ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Harvey, Allan AC
Subject Re: Is there a function for Converting a Decimal into BINARY ?
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Msg-id E97A5BB7699CAD48BE2711E71247116505AAFC70@ntlmsg03.onesteel.com
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In response to Is there a function for Converting a Decimal into BINARY ?  ("Ow Mun Heng" <ow.mun.heng@wdc.com>)
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> Eg:
> I have a datatype in the DB which needs to be converted.
>
> DEC = 192
> BINARY = 11000000

How about this....

gwmdb=> select 192::bit(16);
       bit
------------------
 0000000011000000
(1 row)

Hope that helps

Allan


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