NAME¶

CREATE CONVERSION - define a new encoding conversion

SYNOPSIS¶

CREATE [ DEFAULT ] CONVERSION name


    FOR source_encoding TO dest_encoding FROM funcname

DESCRIPTION¶

CREATE CONVERSION defines a new conversion between character set encodings. Also, conversions that are marked DEFAULT can be used for automatic encoding conversion between client and server. For this purpose, two conversions, from encoding A to B and from encoding B to A, must be defined.

To be able to create a conversion, you must have EXECUTE privilege on the function and CREATE privilege on the destination schema.

PARAMETERS¶

DEFAULT

The DEFAULT clause indicates that this conversion is the default for this particular source to destination encoding. There should be only one default encoding in a schema for the encoding pair.

name

The name of the conversion. The conversion name can be schema-qualified. If it is not, the conversion is defined in the current schema. The conversion name must be unique within a schema.

source_encoding

The source encoding name.

dest_encoding

The destination encoding name.

funcname

The function used to perform the conversion. The function name can be schema-qualified. If it is not, the function will be looked up in the path.

The function must have the following signature:

conv_proc(


    integer,  -- source encoding ID


    integer,  -- destination encoding ID


    cstring,  -- source string (null terminated C string)


    internal, -- destination (fill with a null terminated C string)


    integer   -- source string length
) RETURNS void;

    

NOTES¶

Use DROP CONVERSION to remove user-defined conversions.

The privileges required to create a conversion might be changed in a future release.

EXAMPLES¶

To create a conversion from encoding UTF8 to LATIN1 using myfunc:

CREATE CONVERSION myconv FOR 'UTF8' TO 'LATIN1' FROM myfunc;

COMPATIBILITY¶

CREATE CONVERSION is a PostgreSQL extension. There is no CREATE CONVERSION statement in the SQL standard.

SEE ALSO¶

ALTER CONVERSION [alter_conversion(7)], CREATE FUNCTION [create_function(7)], DROP CONVERSION [drop_conversion(7)]