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FUNCTIONS / STRING FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

reverse

Read PG 18 manual ↗

Reverses the order of the characters in the string.

Signatures & examples

reverse ( text ) → text
Reverses the order of the characters in the string.
reverse('abcde') → edcba
reverse ( bytea ) → bytea
Reverses the order of the bytes in the binary string.
reverse('\xabcd'::bytea) → \xcdab
Version history 3
  1. PG 17 → 18changed
  2. PG 12 → 13changed
  3. PG 9.0 → 9.1added

Definition snapshot: 2026-09-14T13:14:25.684213+00:00@99e6866c · English manual source