Re: does encrypt function support higher than basic ascii? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Naoko Reeves wrote:
> Sorry, as Richard said the issue was me not converting bytea to text. The blow did it . thank you!
>
> SELECT convert_from((select decrypt(encrypt((select convert('aéiou','LATIN1',
'LATIN1')),'foo','aes'),'foo','aes')),'UNICODE')

I'm surprised you can't just do:

SELECT convert_from(
  decrypt(
    encrypt( 'aéiou'::bytea, 'foo', 'aes' )
    , 'foo', 'aes'
  )
  , 'unicode'
)

You should be able to cast to bytea simply enough. Coming back the other
way, you do need to tell it what encoding you have through convert_from().

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd