Re: Can you check in SQL if a fields can be encoded using specified charset - Mailing list pgsql-general

Paul Taylor <paul_t100@fastmail.fm> writes:

> Is there a function that can say whether a textvalue can be encoded in a
> particular charset

See convert() and friends here:

  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/functions-string.html#FUNCTIONS-STRING-OTHER

That will issue an error when the text can't be converted, but you could
have a plpgsql function catching the exception for you and returning
false. Won't be very fast, but will do the job.

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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