On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:27:31PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 13:24:15 -0700,
> Chris Gamache <cgg007@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Following up on the cast to bit idea, he could do something like
> casting to bit(32). I don't think there is an easy way to get this
> cast to string, so it may not completely solve his problem, depending
> on what he was going to do with the binary representation. On teh other
> hand, for some things a bit field might be more useful than a string.
>
> area=> select 6::bit(32);
> bit
> ----------------------------------
> 00000000000000000000000000000110
> (1 row)
That would probably work for me in this case as I am interfacing to
postgresql via the Perl DBI layer. With perl reading out that field
would give me a string representation.
Thanks for the tips,
Stephen Quinney