Hi,
> > I guess there are in fact two problems, not one.
> >
> > 1. Converting between bytea and integer types
> > 2. Multibyte versions of get_byte() / set_byte()
> >
> > As you rightly pointed out, for (1) we just need to add missing casts.
> > Here is the corresponding patch, v3-0001. Note that I couldn't re-use
> > int{2,4,8}recv because its first argument is StringInfo, so I ended up
> > implementing my own bytea->int{2,4,8} functions.
> >
> > I think there may be value in (2) as well. It's implemented in v3-0002
> > and I did my best to clarify the commit message. On the flip side the
> > situation when one wants something like extracting int4 from a
> > bytea(or vice versa) and is not happy with convenience and/or
> > performance of substr()+casts is arguably rare. I'll be fine with
> > whatever consensus the community reaches about this patch.
>
> PFA the rebased patch set v4.Rebased, v5. -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev
v5-0001-Allow-casting-between-bytea-and-integer-types.patch
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v5-0002-Add-get_bytes-and-set_bytes-functions.patch
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