Currently, a number of functions return data in a really calculation-unfriendly format, e.g:
postgres=# select * from pg_current_xlog_location(); pg_current_xlog_location -------------------------- 0/3013158 (1 row) It would be very useful to have a way to convert this to a bigint - so we can do differences between different values easily. And it's AFAIUI easily converted to a 64-bit integer. Would others find this useful as well? What's the best way of doing it? Should we have a function that takes text as input, or should the functions in question be made to return a new datatype that could then be casted? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
