cast bytea to double precision[]

From: Mathieu Dubois <mathieu(dot)dubois(at)limsi(dot)fr>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: cast bytea to double precision[]
Date: 2011-07-24 19:03:01
Message-ID: 4E2C6C65.9030608@limsi.fr
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Hello,

I have a column of type bytea which contains a vector encoded in a
string (elements are separated by spaces).
The problem is that it uses a lot of storage space.

I would like to convert this column to an ARRAY column with ALTER COLUMN
TYPE.

If I understand correctly, I have to specify a function to cast bytea to
double precision[]. Is it correct?

If this is correct, how to do that?

I use regexp_split_to_array to transform the bytea to a text[] but I
can't figure out how to convert it to double precision[].

I'm using postgres 8.4.

Any idea?

Thanks in advance,
Mathieu

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