Thanks for helping me out everyone. I ended up simply using the numeric
type (I didn't realize it could support such large numbers) and writing the
hex-to-numeric conversion functions in my application code.
On 11 April 2014 12:27, Leon Smith leon.p.sm...@gmail.com wrote:
pgmp is also worth
On 04/10/2014 09:13 AM, Olivier Lalonde wrote:
I was wondering if there would be any way to do the following in
PostgreSQL:
UPDATE cryptotable SET work = work + 'some big hexadecimal number'
where work is an unsigned 256 bit integer. Right now my column is a
character varying(64) column
On 04/10/2014 09:13 PM, Olivier Lalonde wrote:
I was wondering if there would be any way to do the following in PostgreSQL:
UPDATE cryptotable SET work = work + 'some big hexadecimal number'
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:13:47PM +0800, Olivier Lalonde wrote:
I was wondering if there would be any way to do the following in PostgreSQL:
UPDATE cryptotable SET work = work + 'some big hexadecimal number'
where work is an unsigned 256 bit integer. Right now my column is a
character
pgmp is also worth mentioning here, and it's likely to be more efficient
than the numeric type or something you hack up yourself:
http://pgmp.projects.pgfoundry.org/
Best,
Leon
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:11 AM, k...@rice.edu k...@rice.edu wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:13:47PM +0800,
