"hernan gonzalez" <hgonzalez@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > test=# create view vchartest as > select encode(convert_to(c,'LATIN9'),'escape') as c1 from chartest; Hmm. This isn't a very sensible combination that you've written here, but I see the point: encode(..., 'escape') is broken in that it fails to convert high-bit-set bytes into \nnn sequences. At least in multibyte backend encodings, we *must* do that to produce valid textual output. I suspect that for consistency we should do it regardless of backend encoding. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/