Thread: pgsql: Allow casting between bytea and integer types.

pgsql: Allow casting between bytea and integer types.

From
Dean Rasheed
Date:
Allow casting between bytea and integer types.

This allows smallint, integer, and bigint values to be cast to and
from bytea. The bytea value is the two's complement representation of
the integer, with the most significant byte first. For example:

  1234::bytea -> \x000004d2
  (-1234)::bytea -> \xfffffb2e

Author: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org>
Reviewed-by: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TPtOp6%2BkFX5QX3fH1SVr7v65uHr-7yEJ%3DGMGQi5uhGtcA%40mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6da469badaffec32f8a804181cca279561467378

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/func.sgml                   |  17 ++++++
src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c          |  96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/include/catalog/catversion.h         |   2 +-
src/include/catalog/pg_cast.dat          |  14 +++++
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.dat          |  19 ++++++
src/test/regress/expected/opr_sanity.out |   3 +
src/test/regress/expected/strings.out    | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/test/regress/sql/strings.sql         |  29 +++++++++
8 files changed, 281 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)