In trying to generate random incompressible data I ran into this. I thought we
said char()/ascii() would be allowed to generate either unicode code points if
your encoding was unicode or 8-bit ascii if it's SQL_ASCII.
Is there any way to generate random 8-bit characters in SQL_ASCII encoding
now?
postgres=# \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding
-----------+-------+-----------
postgres | stark | SQL_ASCII
template0 | stark | SQL_ASCII
template1 | stark | SQL_ASCII
(3 rows)
postgres=# select "char"((random()*255)::integer+1);
char
------
'
(1 row)
postgres=# select "char"((random()*255)::integer+1);
ERROR: "char" out of range
postgres=# select "char"((random()*255)::integer+1);
ERROR: "char" out of range
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