Re: SQL99 CONVERT() function

Tatsuo Ishii writes:

> > Sorry, but it seems
> >  strange. What 'ISO8859-1' as name?
>
> Sure, you can use '-' instead of '_' if you don't mind quoting it
> with "(i.e. delimited identifier).
>
> convert('PostgreSQL' using "iso8859-1-to-utf8")
>
> I'm sure people don't like that way...

I suggest using the official IANA names and replace all the non-identifier
characters by underscores and all upper-case letters with lower-case.
So it would be iso_8859_1_to_utf_8.  That way it's almost as pretty but a
lot more predictable.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net