Re: does encrypt function support higher than basic ascii? - Mailing list pgsql-general

I see that's how you cast...Yes that worked PERFECTLY. I am always learning something new from the list. Thank you VERY
much!

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Huxton [mailto:dev@archonet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:07 PM
To: Naoko Reeves
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] does encrypt function support higher than basic ascii?

Naoko Reeves wrote:
> Sorry, as Richard said the issue was me not converting bytea to text. The blow did it . thank you!
>
> SELECT convert_from((select decrypt(encrypt((select convert('aéiou','LATIN1',
'LATIN1')),'foo','aes'),'foo','aes')),'UNICODE')

I'm surprised you can't just do:

SELECT convert_from(
  decrypt(
    encrypt( 'aéiou'::bytea, 'foo', 'aes' )
    , 'foo', 'aes'
  )
  , 'unicode'
)

You should be able to cast to bytea simply enough. Coming back the other
way, you do need to tell it what encoding you have through convert_from().

--
  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd