Tom Lane wrote:
> I think really the technically cleanest solution would be to make
> convert() return bytea instead of text; then we'd not have to put
> restrictions on what encoding or locale it's working inside of.
> However, it's not clear to me whether there are valid usages that
> that would foreclose. Tatsuo mentioned length() but bytea has that.
>
> What I think we'd need to have a complete solution is
>
> convert(text, name) returns bytea
> -- convert from DB encoding to arbitrary encoding
>
> convert(bytea, name, name) returns bytea
> -- convert between any two encodings
>
> convert(bytea, name) returns text
> -- convert from arbitrary encoding to DB encoding
>
> The second and third would need to do a verify step before
> converting, of course.
>
>
>
Are you wanting this done for 8.3? If so, by whom? :-)
cheers
andrew