Re: invalidly encoded strings

Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   

Is there any reason these functions shouldn't be marked immutable? Also, 
I'm wondering if we should give them disambiguating names, rather than 
call them all convert.

cheers

andrew