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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:11:23 -0700
From: Aditya <aditya@grot.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: converting from bigint to bit to use bitwise operators
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For historical reasons, I have IPv4 addresses stored as bigint and I would
like to convert them to dot-quad (ie. A.B.C.D) in a select. This is how I
would normally do it:

- remotehost is the IP address as a bigint

select
  ((remotehost::bit varying(32) >> 24) & 11111111) || '.' ||
  ((remotehost::bit varying(32) & 11111100) >> 16) || '.' ||
  ((remotehost::bit varying(32) & 11110000) >>  8) || '.' ||
  ((remotehost::bit varying(32) & 11000000)) as ip,
  httpquery
from
 weblogs
;

however this complains:

  ERROR:  Cannot cast type 'bigint' to 'bit varying'

hints?

Thanks,
Adi