Re: [FeatureRequest] Base Convert Function

On Dec21, 2010, at 12:48 , Robert Haas wrote:
> 2010/12/21 Tomáš Mudruňka <tomas(at)mudrunka(dot)cz>:
>> Is there possibility of having internal base converting function in PgSQL?
>> There are already functions for converting between decimal and hexadecimal
>> notations i think pgsql can be able to convert between number with radixes
>> from 1 to 36 (actually fast (de)encoding base36 is what i need)...
>
> It should be pretty easy to write such a function in C, perhaps using
> strtol() or strtoul().

If you're not comfortable doing this in C, you might also want to consider
one of procedural languages pl/pgsql, pl/perl, pl/python. pl/pgsql is probably
only viable if you just need this for ints and bigints, unless you don't
care about performance.

best regards,
Florian Pflug