On Monday 03 August 2009 22:11:08 Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm starting to look at this patch. I observe that it's setting the
> default output format to HEX. If changing the default behavior was
> agreed to, or even discussed, I do not remember where. Shouldn't the
> default stay the same?
I did pose that question in my patch submission email.
Unless there is overwhelming support in favor of changing, we probably
shouldn't change it, at least not yet.