From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:10:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add convert.
X-Git-Tag: REL7_2_BETA1~702
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=397f65d102b7f9998411f2a8c2d1c66dfe712320;p=postgresql

Add convert.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 6bb793a9c8..9423e524fe 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.65 2001/08/14 22:21:58 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.66 2001/08/15 07:10:12 ishii Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="functions">
  <title>Functions and Operators</title>
@@ -929,6 +929,20 @@
       <entry>A</entry>
      </row>
 
+     <row>
+      <entry>convert(<parameter>string</parameter> <type>text</type>,
+      [<parameter>src_encoding</parameter> <type>name</type>,]
+      <parameter>dest_encoding</parameter> <type>name</type>)</entry>
+      <entry><type>text</type></entry>
+      <entry>Converts string using <parameter>dest_encoding</parameter>.
+      The original encoding is specified by <parameter>src_encoding</parameter>.
+      If <parameter>src_encoding</parameter> is omitted, database encoding
+      is assumed.
+      </entry>
+      <entry>convert('text_in_unicode','UNICODE','LATIN1')</entry>
+      <entry>text_in_unicode (represented in ISO-8859-1)</entry>
+     </row>
+
      <row>
       <entry>initcap(<type>text</type>)</entry>
       <entry><type>text</type></entry>