2022年12月21日(水) 10:42 Eric Radman <ericsh...@eradman.com>: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 08:36:40AM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: > > 2022年12月21日(水) 7:08 Eric Radman <ericsh...@eradman.com>:> > > > Hello! > > > > > > This patch is a new function based on the implementation of to_hex(int). > > > > > > Since support for octal integer literals was added, to_oct(int) allows > > > octal values to be easily stored and returned in query results. > > > > > > to_oct(0o755) = '755' > > > > > > This is probably most useful for storing file system permissions. > > > > Seems like it would be convenient to have. Any reason why there's > > no matching "to_oct(bigint)" version? > > I couldn't think of a reason someone might want an octal > representation of a bigint. Certainly it would be easy to add > if there is value in supporting all of the same argument types.
Yeah, I am struggling to think of a practical application other than symmetry with to_hex(). Regards Ian Barwick
