CREATE CONVERSION
Description
CREATE CONVERSION defines a new conversion between character set encodings. Also, conversions that are marked DEFAULT can be used for automatic encoding conversion between client and server. For this purpose, two conversions, from encoding A to B and from encoding B to A, must be defined.
To be able to create a conversion, you must have EXECUTE privilege on the function and CREATE privilege on the destination schema.
Parameters
- DEFAULT
The DEFAULT clause indicates that this conversion is the default for this particular source to destination encoding. There should be only one default encoding in a schema for the encoding pair.
- name
The name of the conversion. The conversion name can be schema-qualified. If it is not, the conversion is defined in the current schema. The conversion name must be unique within a schema.
- source_encoding
The source encoding name.
- dest_encoding
The destination encoding name.
- function_name
The function used to perform the conversion. The function name can be schema-qualified. If it is not, the function will be looked up in the path.
The function must have the following signature:
conv_proc( integer, -- source encoding ID integer, -- destination encoding ID cstring, -- source string (null terminated C string) internal, -- destination (fill with a null terminated C string) integer -- source string length ) RETURNS void;
Notes
Use DROP CONVERSION to remove user-defined conversions.
The privileges required to create a conversion might be changed in a future release.
Examples
To create a conversion from encoding UTF8 to LATIN1 using myfunc:
CREATE CONVERSION myconv FOR 'UTF8' TO 'LATIN1' FROM myfunc;