Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 9. Februar 2007 16:45 schrieb Andrew Dunstan:
>
>> . provide encode() for text values in addition to current bytea
>> . proved cast from text to bytea
>>
>
> I'm not sure how exactly you want to define these, but some possible
> defintions will be dependent on the server encoding, which sounds
> troublesome.
>
>
Well, the cast wasn't my suggestion, so I'll let that one slide -
someone else can pick it up if they like :P .
The encode() suggestion was to have it have the same effect as: encode(byteain(varcharout(textvalue)),
'encodingtype')
Would it be such a worry to have that dependent on server encoding?
cheers
andrew