Re: ERROR: cannot cast type text to bit varying

> > I ended up writing a bunch of code to accomplish what I initially
> > thought would be just some casting and bitops on built-in types.

> I imagine you could have done something involving textout() and
> varbit_in(), like
> 
> alvherre=# select varbit_in(textout(translate('YYNY', 'YN', '10')), 123::oid, 32);
>  varbit_in 
> -----------
>  1101
> (1 fila)

Ah... This is more like it.  Thank you.

I'll explore this more tomorrow.  Are "varbit_in" and "textout"
documented?