Tom Davies <tgdavies@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 16/01/2008, at 2:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> You definitely should not expect to convert the names to integers. > Presumably you can convert them to 96 bit integers? i.e. they are > always strings of hex characters? You could, but in most scripting languages I can think of, it'd be a lot easier just to treat them as strings. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org