Re: proposal: UTF8 to_ascii function

2008/8/11 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:
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> Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>>> But what would be the meaning of this?:
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>>>  to_ascii(bytea, integer)
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>> it's symmetric. Nothing more.
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> Symmetric to what? What is the second argument supposed to be?
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postgres=# \df to_ascii                      List of functions  Schema   |   Name   | Result data type | Argument data
types
------------+----------+------------------+---------------------pg_catalog | to_ascii | text             |
textpg_catalog| to_ascii | text             | text, integerpg_catalog | to_ascii | text             | text, name
 

postgres=# select to_ascii('pavel',8);to_ascii
----------pavel
(1 row)


> cheers
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> andrew
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