Fritz Lehmann-Grube wrote:
> 
> hallo somebody,
> 
> what do the functions "encode" and "decode" expect as arguments ?
        
        test=> \df decode
                              List of functions
         Result data type |   Schema   |  Name  | Argument data types 
        ------------------+------------+--------+---------------------
         bytea            | pg_catalog | decode | text, text
        (1 row)

> I was puzzled when I got the following:
> 
> pgdocsample=# \encoding
> SQL_ASCII
> pgdocsample=# select decode('hallo','SQL_ASCII');
> ERROR:  No such encoding as 'SQL_ASCII'
> 
> What have I understood wrong ?

Decode is working.  The message is complaining about the encoding you
have for the session.

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