Re: [ADMIN] type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Dienstag 15 September 2009 Kevin Grittner wrote: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-string.html >   > I would have thought convert_from, possibly combined with convert, > would do it. That function exists since 8.3, I'm on 8.1 on my server. Will forward it to others, an

Re: [ADMIN] type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever

2009-09-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Sonntag 13 September 2009 Michael Monnerie wrote: >> I currently have no idea how to cast bytea to text. For this >> purpose of searching through mails, it would be enough for >> postgres to treat the bytea as text, and just search through it. >> You can only find a

Re: [ADMIN] type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Sonntag 13 September 2009 Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Donnerstag 10 September 2009 Tom Lane wrote: > > There has *never* been a Postgres release that accepted bytea ILIKE > > something.  I'm not sure what you were really doing before, but > > that wasn't it. > > You're right: That query was gen

Re: [ADMIN] type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever

2009-09-13 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag 10 September 2009 Tom Lane wrote: > There has *never* been a Postgres release that accepted bytea ILIKE > something.  I'm not sure what you were really doing before, but that > wasn't it. You're right: That query was generated on a specific search, and doesn't work. It's a bug that

Re: [ADMIN] type cast from bytea to varchar or whatever

2009-09-10 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Monnerie writes: > in dbmail there's a query that worked until postgresql 8.2 (i stripped > the unneeded parts for other tables): > SELECT k.messageblk FROM dbmail_messageblks k WHERE k.messageblk ILIKE > '%multipart/encrypted%'; > In 8.3, you get an error There has *never* been a P