Base62 extension for PostgreSQL. The extension provides data types to encode and decode values using base62 encoding scheme.
Base62 uses 62 ASCII characters: 0 - 9
, A - Z
and a - z
.
More information about base62 encoding scheme:
- Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base62
- A blog post: https://helloacm.com/base62/
base62
stores encoded value in 4 bytes integer. The maximum length of string
representation is 6 characters and maximum value of numeric representation is
2147483647.
-- Cast from text
=# select '2LKcb1'::base62::int;
int4
------------
2147483647
-- Cast from integer
=# select 2147483647::base62;
base62
--------
2LKcb1
=# select '1111111'::base62::int;
ERROR: value "1111111" is out of range for type base62
-- The type is case sensitive
=# select '2lkcb'::base62::int, '2lkcb'::base62, '2LKCB'::base62::int, '2LKCB'::base62;
int4 | base62 | int4 | base62
----------+--------+----------+--------
40933305 | 2lkcb | 34635195 | 2LKCB
bigbase62
stores encoded value in 8 bytes integer. The maxiumum length of
string representation is 11 characters and the maximum value of numeric
representation is 9223372036854775807.
-- Cast from text
=# select 'AzL8n0Y58m7'::bigbase62::bigint;
int8
---------------------
9223372036854775807
-- Cast from integer
=# select 9223372036854775807::bigbase62;
bigbase62
-------------
AzL8n0Y58m7
=# select '111111111111'::bigbase62::bigint;
ERROR: value "111111111111" is out of range for type bigbase62
-- The type is case sensitive
=# select '2lkcb1'::bigbase62::bigint, '2lkcb1'::bigbase62, '2LKCB1'::bigbase62::bigint, '2LKCB1'::bigbase62;
int8 | bigbase62 | int8 | bigbase62
------------+-----------+------------+-----------
2537864911 | 2lkcb1 | 2147382091 | 2LKCB1
hugebase62
stores encoded value in 16 bytes integer. The maximum length of
string representation is 20 characters.
It doesn't support casting from/to numeric type. Instead it support casting
from/to bytea
type. This is useful for applications to work with hugebase62
.
-- Cast from text
=# select 'AzL8n0Y58m7AzL8n0Y58'::hugebase62;
hugebase62
----------------------
AzL8n0Y58m7AzL8n0Y58
=# select 'AzL8n0Y58m7AzL8n0Y58'::hugebase62::bytea;
bytea
------------------------------------
\x960c06065a6ed8ffff1e7149f40b1800
-- Cast from bytea
=# select '\x960c06065a6ed8ffff1e7149f40b1800'::bytea::hugebase62;
hugebase62
----------------------
AzL8n0Y58m7AzL8n0Y58
=# select '111111111111111111111'::hugebase62;
ERROR: value "111111111111111111111" is out of range for type hugebase62
-- The type is case sensitive
=# select '2lkcb1'::hugebase62::bytea, '2lkcb1'::hugebase62, '2LKCB1'::hugebase62::bytea, '2LKCB1'::hugebase62;
bytea | hugebase62 | bytea | hugebase62
------------------------------------+------------+------------------------------------+------------
\xcfbe4497000000000000000000000000 | 2lkcb1 | \x4b73fe7f000000000000000000000000 | 2LKCB1
All types support btree
and hash
indexes.
To install base62
, execute this in the extension's directory:
make install
Notice: Don't forget to set the
PG_CONFIG
variable (make PG_CONFIG=...
) in case you want to testbase62
on a non-default or custom build of PostgreSQL. Read more here.
Important: To compile
base62
your compiler should support 128-bit integers, otherwise it will fail during compilation.