- instring = VARBYTE or BLOB
- out_encoding = VARCHAR(64)
If out_encoding is not one of the supported encodings, an error is returned.
If the resulting conversion overflows the result data type length, Analytics Database returns an error.
If either instring or out_encoding is NULL, the result is NULL.
The character set of the return type is set to either Latin or Unicode. The character set of the return type is set to match the character set of the encoding input parameter.
You can also pass arguments with data types that can be converted to these data types using the implicit data type conversion rules that apply to UDFs.
The maximum input or output for CLOB or BLOB size is 2 GB. An error is reported if the size is exceeded.
The FROM_BYTES function converts from a VARBYTE and a character string. Byte strings are interpreted as negative if the high order bit is 1.
FROM_BYTES does not convert from byte to byte encodings, as the data is interpreted differently. Additionally, the byte encodings do not use positive or negative signs, which FROM_BYTES needs to decipher if the data is a positive or negative number.
If you must use byte to byte conversion, use two TO_BYTE functions. (Note the syntax is TO_BYTE, not TO_BYTES.)