Re: getting inet out of char?

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:20:23AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> Seems like the cleanest answer would be to teach PHP about inet data
> type (not to mention other extension types).

I'd like to do that, but I don't even know where to begin.  I gather that
something like this is still being worked on (although I guess it will get
integrated with PHP4, rather than 3, and I'm not in a hurry to upgrade).
Anyway, it'd probably take more than my meagre skills could do.

> You could create a C-coded function to do the transformation, or you
> could replace the rule with a trigger coded in pltcl or plperl.  I
> believe both the pltcl and plperl languages are basically datatype-
> ignorant --- as long as the textual output from one data value looks
> like the format the input routine for another type is expecting,
> it'll work.

Thanks.  At least this isn't one of those cases where I overlooked something
really obvious!

A

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