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FUNCTIONS / BINARY STRING FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

set_byte

Read PG 18 manual ↗

Sets n'th byte in binary string to newvalue.

Signatures & examples

set_byte ( bytes bytea, n integer, newvalue integer ) → bytea
Sets n'th byte in binary string to newvalue.
set_byte('\x1234567890'::bytea, 4, 64) → \x1234567840
Version history 1
  1. PG 12 → 13changed

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