From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Stephen Quinney <stephen.quinney@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Converting integer to binary
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:27:56 -0500
Message-ID: <20040610182756.GA22247@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040610135240.GD27245@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
References: <20040610135240.GD27245@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 14:52:41 +0100,
Stephen Quinney <stephen.quinney@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I have searched around but I cannot see any standard way in PostgreSQL
> to convert from an integer into a binary representation.
>
> Now I have an algorithm to do it so I could write an SQL function, I
> guess. If there's a standard way to do it though that would be quite nice.
There doesn't seem to currently be a function that does this. to_char
would be the logical place since that is what is used to convert various
numeric types to strings with a decimal representation.
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