On Sat, 2020-04-25 at 10:41 +0100, Steve Tucknott (TuSol) wrote:
Postgresql 11.7 - client/server encoding LATIN9
Good morning,
I have made a couple of stupid mistakes.
I have a table with a varchar(5000) that contains general text. The table is typically maintained via a GUI, but on this occasion I received a spreadsheet with data and loaded it - via copy - from a csv extracted from that. The data looked fine in psql, but when looking at the data in the GUI, characters such as single quote marks (') appeared as a series of special characters. I assumed that the spreadsheet then had some different encoding (UTF8?) and that I then needed to 'translate' the characters.
I saw there was a convert_to/from function in postgresql, and thought I'd try that to see what it would do, but (the two mistakes) I didn't start a transaction and where I had intended to run the command on one row, I had a brain freeze and ran the update across the table.
The command was:
update gamespubquiz set question = convert_to(question,'LATIN9');
What I now appear to have in the question column is the hex equivalent of what was there originally.
Two questions:
1) How can I convert the hext back to 'text'?
2) How can I convert the (what appears to be) incorrect coding of the single quote (')?
Thanks in advance,
Steve T
...for example ....as taken from psql:
Original text: ‘With the lights out, it’s less dangerous. Here we are now, entertain us.’
After convert: \xe280985769746820746865206c6967687473206f75742c206974e2809973206c6573732064616e6765726f75732e204865726520776520617265206e6f772c20656e7465727461696e2075732ee28099
PS apologies for any inconvenience for posting with 'read receipt' request turned on earlier.
