Re: text and bytea

Tom Lane wrote:
> "hernan gonzalez"  writes:
> > test=# create view vchartest as
> >  select encode(convert_to(c,'LATIN9'),'escape') as c1 from chartest;
> 
> Hmm.  This isn't a very sensible combination that you've written here,
> but I see the point: encode(..., 'escape') is broken in that it fails
> to convert high-bit-set bytes into \nnn sequences.  At least in
> multibyte backend encodings, we *must* do that to produce valid textual
> output.  I suspect that for consistency we should do it regardless of
> backend encoding.

With Tom's encoding() patch applied I assume there is no TODO item here.

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