From: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Using psql to insert character codes
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 23:18:07 +0200
Message-ID: <200305142318.07595.barwick@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305111828010.2399-100000@peter.localdomain>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305111828010.2399-100000@peter.localdomain>
On Sunday 11 May 2003 18:54, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Ian Barwick writes:
> > I can do this:
> > INSERT INTO my_tbl (unitxt) VALUE(encode(decode('c3a4','hex'), 'escape'))
> >
> > Is there any other, shorter way of doing the same?
>
> Use octal escapes: '\303\244';
Aha, thanks.
That seems to imply though that this statement in the docs:
"...where xxx is an octal number, is the character with the corresponding
ASCII code."
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=sql-syntax.html
is not completely correct. Maybe it should read something like:
"...where xxx is an octal number which corresponds to a valid character in the
database encoding."
Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net
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