| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Asif Rehman <asifr(dot)rehman(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: unescape_text function |
| Date: | 2020-11-27 14:37:05 |
| Message-ID: | 5cf1cd10-0fc6-7ba7-c03c-c1ef5008f6d0@enterprisedb.com |
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On 2020-10-07 11:00, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Since the idea originated from unescaping unicode string
> literals i.e.
> select unescape('Odpov\u011Bdn\u00E1 osoba');
>
> Shouldn't the built-in function support the above syntax as well?
>
>
> good idea. The prefixes u (4 digits) and U (8 digits) are supported
I don't really get the point of this function. There is AFAICT no
function to produce this escaped format, and it's not a recognized
interchange format. So under what circumstances would one need to use this?
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