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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/func.sgml27
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/create_conversion.sgml6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 5b5f961426b..ca9c5355293 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.397 2007/09/19 03:13:57 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.398 2007/09/24 01:29:27 adunstan Exp $ -->
<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
@@ -1023,9 +1023,6 @@
<primary>char_length</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
- <primary>convert</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm>
<primary>lower</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
@@ -1120,22 +1117,6 @@
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal><function>convert</function>(<parameter>string</parameter>
- using <parameter>conversion_name</parameter>)</literal></entry>
- <entry><type>bytea</type></entry>
- <entry>
- Change encoding using specified conversion name. Conversions
- can be defined by <command>CREATE CONVERSION</command>. Also
- there are some pre-defined conversion names. See <xref
- linkend="conversion-names"> for available conversion
- names. The <parameter>string</parameter> must be valid in the
- source encoding.
- </entry>
- <entry><literal>convert('PostgreSQL' using iso_8859_1_to_utf8)</literal></entry>
- <entry><literal>'PostgreSQL'</literal> in UTF8 (Unicode, 8-bit) encoding</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
<entry><literal><function>lower</function>(<parameter>string</parameter>)</literal></entry>
<entry><type>text</type></entry>
<entry>Convert string to lower case</entry>
@@ -1246,6 +1227,9 @@
<primary>chr</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
+ <primary>convert</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <indexterm>
<primary>convert_from</primary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
@@ -1374,6 +1358,9 @@
original encoding is specified by
<parameter>src_encoding</parameter>. The
<parameter>string</parameter> must be valid in this encoding.
+ Conversions can be defined by <command>CREATE CONVERSION</command>.
+ Also there are some pre-defined conversions. See <xref
+ linkend="conversion-names"> for available conversions.
</entry>
<entry><literal>convert( 'text_in_utf8', 'UTF8', 'LATIN1')</literal></entry>
<entry><literal>text_in_utf8</literal> represented in ISO 8859-1 encoding</entry>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_conversion.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_conversion.sgml
index 8454abbd21b..b606f44d3e4 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_conversion.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_conversion.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_conversion.sgml,v 1.19 2007/01/31 23:26:03 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_conversion.sgml,v 1.20 2007/09/24 01:29:28 adunstan Exp $ -->
<refentry id="SQL-CREATECONVERSION">
<refmeta>
@@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ CREATE [ DEFAULT ] CONVERSION <replaceable>name</replaceable>
<para>
<command>CREATE CONVERSION</command> defines a new conversion between
- character set encodings. Conversion names can be used in the
- <function>convert</function> function
- to specify a particular encoding conversion. Also, conversions that
+ character set encodings. Also, conversions that
are marked <literal>DEFAULT</> can be used for automatic encoding
conversion between
client and server. For this purpose, two conversions, from encoding A to