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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
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Bart Degryse wrote:
> Hi Markus,
> I should have said "The ICT department doesn't give me access to the psql command line interface".
> Thanks for explaining what goes wrong. I now understand the problem. It doesn't solve it though.

What's wrong with the chr() function?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-string.html

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