This allows smallint, integer, and bigint values to be cast to and from bytea. The bytea value is the two's complement representation of the integer, with the most significant byte first. For example: 1234::bytea -> \x000004d2 (-1234)::bytea -> \xfffffb2e Author: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org> Reviewed-by: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TPtOp6%2BkFX5QX3fH1SVr7v65uHr-7yEJ%3DGMGQi5uhGtcA%40mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT.
General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/. In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source code can be found at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html.
The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.