Fritz Lehmann-Grube wrote:
>
> hallo somebody,
>
> what do the functions "encode" and "decode" expect as arguments ?test=> \df decode List of
functionsResult data type | Schema | Name | Argument data types
------------------+------------+--------+---------------------bytea | pg_catalog | decode | text, text(1
row)
> I was puzzled when I got the following:
>
> pgdocsample=# \encoding
> SQL_ASCII
> pgdocsample=# select decode('hallo','SQL_ASCII');
> ERROR: No such encoding as 'SQL_ASCII'
>
> What have I understood wrong ?
Decode is working. The message is complaining about the encoding you
have for the session.
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