Re: Hex Integer Input

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> writes:
> > Hi, is there a way to enter integer data by their HEX
> > representation??
> 
> I'm not sure that this is SQL-spec, but at least as of 7.3, you can
> coerce a bitstring literal to int, so:
> 
> z=# select x'0f';
>  ?column?
> ----------
>  00001111
> (1 row)
> 
> z=# select x'0f'::int4;
>  int4
> ------
>    15
> (1 row)

Thanx.

> 
> Looks like it works for int8 as well.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

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