diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/pgsql/Schema.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/pgsql/Schema.php
index 06b7540..35b44d0 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/pgsql/Schema.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Database/Driver/pgsql/Schema.php
@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ public function changeField($table, $field, $field_new, $spec, $new_keys = array
         // Convert to a bytea type by using the SQL replace() function to
         // convert any single backslashes in the field content to double
         // backslashes ('\' to '\\').
-        $this->connection->query('ALTER TABLE {' . $table . '} ALTER "' . $field . '" TYPE ' . $field_def . ' USING decode(replace("' . $field . '"' . ", '\\', '\\\\'), 'escape');");
+        $this->connection->query('ALTER TABLE {' . $table . '} ALTER "' . $field . '" TYPE ' . $field_def . ' USING convert_to("' . $field . '", ' . "'UTF8')");
       }
     }