hex - How can I print bytea data as a hexadecimal string in PostgreSQL / pgAdmin III?

Question

I have a fairly short (14-byte) bytea data column in my database. I would like to print it as a hexadecimal string.

How do I do that?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16055849/how-can-i-print-bytea-data-as-a-hexadecimal-string-in-postgresql-pgadmin-iii

Answer 1

Based on this answer, I found my solution to be

SELECT encode(my_column::bytea, 'hex') FROM my_table;