Re: proposal: UTF8 to_ascii function

[Andrew Dunstan]

Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2008/8/11 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>   
> > Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >     
> > > > But what would be the meaning of this?:
> > > >
> > > >  to_ascii(bytea, integer)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > it's symmetric. Nothing more.
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > Symmetric to what? What is the second argument supposed to be?
> >
> >     
>
> postgres=# \df to_ascii
>                        List of functions
>    Schema   |   Name   | Result data type | Argument data types
> ------------+----------+------------------+---------------------
>  pg_catalog | to_ascii | text             | text
>  pg_catalog | to_ascii | text             | text, integer
>  pg_catalog | to_ascii | text             | text, name
>
> postgres=# select to_ascii('pavel',8);
>  to_ascii
> ----------
>  pavel
> (1 row)
>
>
>   

Hmm. That's not documented, and I suspect shouldn't be there. Everywhere 
else pretty much that I can think of we pass the encoding as a name, and 
I think we should be consistent about it.

cheers

andrew

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