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FUNCTIONS / BINARY STRING FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

convert_to

Read PG 18 manual ↗

Converts a text string (in the database encoding) to a binary string encoded in encoding dest_encoding (see Section 23.3.4 for available conversions).

Signatures & examples

convert_to ( string text, dest_encoding name ) → bytea
Converts a text string (in the database encoding) to a binary string encoded in encoding dest_encoding (see Section 23.3.4 for available conversions).
convert_to('some_text', 'UTF8') → \x736f6d655f74657874
Version history 3
  1. PG 16 → 17changed
  2. PG 13 → 14changed
  3. PG 12 → 13changed

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