Re: type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever

On Dienstag 15 September 2009 Kevin Grittner wrote:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-string.html
>  
> I would have thought convert_from, possibly combined with convert,
> would do it.

That function exists since 8.3, I'm on 8.1 on my server. Will forward it
to others, and try to push my server to 8.3 quickly.
Thank you for the hint!

mfg zmi
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