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From: Ragnar Hafstað <gnari@simnet.is>
To: Moran.Michael <Michael.Moran@IGT.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to cast VARCHAR to BYTEA and vice-versa?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:46:33 +0000
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On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 07:31 -0800, Moran.Michael wrote:
> Hello all,
>  
> I have a table with a VARCHAR column that I need to convert to a BYTEA.
>  
> How do I cast VARCHAR to BYTEA?

have you looked at the encode() and decode() functions ?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/functions-string.html

gnari

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