From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Fritz Lehmann-Grube <lehmannf@math.TU-Berlin.DE>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: decode('hallo',???)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:27:56 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200208272027.g7RKRvg11422@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D6BDFB6.8080905@math.tu-berlin.de>
Fritz Lehmann-Grube wrote:
>
> hallo somebody,
>
> what do the functions "encode" and "decode" expect as arguments ?
test=> \df decode
List of functions
Result data type | Schema | Name | Argument data types
------------------+------------+--------+---------------------
bytea | pg_catalog | decode | text, text
(1 row)
> I was puzzled when I got the following:
>
> pgdocsample=# \encoding
> SQL_ASCII
> pgdocsample=# select decode('hallo','SQL_ASCII');
> ERROR: No such encoding as 'SQL_ASCII'
>
> What have I understood wrong ?
Decode is working. The message is complaining about the encoding you
have for the session.
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