URI_PERCENT_DECODE

Decodes a percent-encoded Universal Resource Identifier (URI) according to the RFC 3986 standard.

Syntax

URI_PERCENT_DECODE (expression)

Behavior type

Parameters

expression

(VARCHAR) is the string to convert.

Examples

The following example invokes uri_percent_decode on the Websites column of the URI table and returns a decoded URI:

=> SELECT URI_PERCENT_DECODE(Websites) from URI;
              URI_PERCENT_DECODE
-----------------------------------------------
 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3986.html x xj%a%
(1 row)

The following example returns the original URI in the Websites column and its decoded version:

=> SELECT Websites, URI_PERCENT_DECODE (Websites) from URI;

                     Websites                      |              URI_PERCENT_DECODE
---------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3986.html+x%20x%6a%a% | http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3986.html x xj%a%

(1 row)