Hi. Could someone please tell me how to convert a "varchar" to a "bytea" datatype. 

I have a column which contains a number stored as a varchar. I have another column of 
type bytea. I'm trying to insert the value of the varchar column in the bytea column, 
but the conversion won't work.

Something like the following:

update webuser set ccnum = ccnumstring::bytea where userid=userid;

Any ideas how to do this?

Also, I have the PGCRYPTO module and I can't get the AES algorithm to decrypt 
properly. It will encrypt, but not decrypt. However, I can get the BLOWFISH algorithm 
to work in both directions. Can someone please give me an example of decrypting using 
the AES algorithm?

Thanks in advance.

Dylan

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