BASE64_DECODE v16

Use the BASE64_DECODE function to translate a Base64 encoded string to the original value originally encoded by BASE64_ENCODE. The signature is:

BASE64_DECODE (<r> IN RAW)

This function returns a RAW value.

Parameters

r

r is the string that contains the Base64 encoded data to translate to RAW form.

Examples

Before executing the following example, invoke the command:

SET bytea_output = escape;

This command instructs the server to escape any non-printable characters and to display BYTEA or RAW values onscreen in readable form. For more information, see the Postgres core documentation.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-binary.html

This example encodes and then decodes a string that contains the SQL abc. It uses BASE64_ENCODE for encoding and BASE64_DECODE for decoding.

edb=# SELECT UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_ENCODE(CAST ('abc' AS RAW));

 base64_encode
---------------
 YWJj
(1 row)

edb=# SELECT UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_DECODE(CAST ('YWJj' AS RAW));

 base64_decode
---------------
 abc
(1 row)

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