Re: problem with to_ascii() function in version 8.3.3

From: Pavel Arnošt <id9848949(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: problem with to_ascii() function in version 8.3.3
Date: 2008-06-19 07:03:12
Message-ID: 984a479c-0194-4624-b8cc-50b51d9d290b@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com
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> Could you run the following queries and compare with my results:
>
> test=> select ascii(c) from chartest;
>  ascii
> -------
>    225
> (1 row)
>
> test=> select encode(convert_to(c,'LATIN9'),'hex') from chartest;
>  encode
> --------
>  e1
> (1 row)
>
> test=> select ascii(to_ascii(encode(convert_to(c,'LATIN9'),'escape'),'LATIN9'))  from chartest;
>  ascii
> -------
>     97
> (1 row)

It gives me:

ascii
-------
225

encode
--------
e1

ascii
-------
92

So the last command have different output. Strange.

regards
Pavel

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