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From: Mark Tabash <mark.tabash@novacolor.ca>
Organization: Novacolor Inc.
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: create function atof?
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:01:21 -0500
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Hello,

Is it possible to create a database function that mimics the C function atof?
I'm guessing it should look something like this:

	create function atof(varchar) returns float
	as '??????'
	language ????
	returns null on null input;

Thanks,

Mark