Re: proposal: UTF8 to_ascii function

2008/8/11 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:
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> Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>> 2008/8/11 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:
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>>> Pavel Stehule wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> But what would be the meaning of this?:
>>>>>
>>>>> to_ascii(bytea, integer)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> it's symmetric. Nothing more.
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>>> Symmetric to what? What is the second argument supposed to be?
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>> 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)
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>>
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> 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.
>

I don't need it

regards
Pavel

> cheers
>
> andrew
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