Mark Dilger <pgsql(at)markdilger(dot)com> writes:
>> pgsql=# select chr(14989485);
>> chr
>> -----
>>
>> (1 row)
Is there a principled rationale for this particular behavior as
opposed to any other?
In particular, in UTF8 land I'd have expected the argument of chr()
to be interpreted as a Unicode code point, not as actual UTF8 bytes
with a randomly-chosen endianness.
Not sure what to do in other multibyte encodings.
regards, tom lane