On mán, 2006-11-27 at 15:54 +0100, Bart Degryse wrote:
> Hi gnari,
> I suppose your statement
> test=# select '\x'||'65';
> is done on some command line interface. I don't have that. I can only
> use some client program. I'm using EMS SQL Manager 2007 and pgAdmin
> III 1.3
> None of them accepts your statement.
> My point is that in my first version of the function (  charset :=
> charset || '\x65';  ) a unicode hex value for the letter e is stored
> in charset.

my point was that '\x65' as a literal
is read as 'e', but '\\x' || '65' is
just the concatation of 2 2-char varchars

> When I try to do the same for a range of hex values (  FOR i IN
> 101..101 LOOP    charset := charset || '\x' || to_hex(i);  )

you might be able to do what you want with
set_byte() and encode().

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfunction() 
  RETURNS varchar AS 
$x$ 
  DECLARE x bytea := '     ';
  BEGIN
    FOR i in 101..105 LOOP
      x:=set_byte(x,i-101,i);
    END LOOP;
    RETURN encode(x,''escape'');
  END;
$x$
 LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

select myfunction(); 


gnari



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