Re: convert binary string to datum

"Ron Peterson" <ron(dot)peterson(at)yellowbank(dot)com> writes:

> 2007-10-13_08:50:56-0400 Ron Peterson <ron(dot)peterson(at)yellowbank(dot)com>:
>> 2007-10-13_01:22:06-0400 Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>:
>
>> > And normally you would define your own datatype and not use bytea.
>>
>> Actually, I already have my data in a structure much like varlena.
>
> Pght, I misunderstood what you were saying. You mean create a
> full-blown new type. I was thinking completely internally. Yeah,
> that's probably a better approach - I'll do that.

Or you could just define new functions which operate on bytea if you're just
storing binary data.

I don't understand what you mean with "internally" if you're storing this in
tuples?

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