On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 06:30:40PM -0600, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> FWIW, I'm running into this trying to create a 'raw' domain that would > >> automagically convert hex strings into actual binary data for storage in > >> a bytea. > > > > I think you've got 0 chance of implementing that as a domain rather than > > an independent type. Without or without revisions in the casting rules, > > a domain has not got its own I/O functions, and never will. > > > This might be less of an issue if we allowed such IO functions to be > written in a loadable PL rather than in C.
I'm confused... couldn't I just write a cast function? Or is that what's meant by I/O functions? And yes, in this case I should be able to accomplish what I'm looking for just using encode() and decode(). -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
