"murphy pope" <pope_murphy(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> I seem to remember running into a utility that could be used to view the
> contents of a page within a database, in a nicely formatted manner.
Possibly you were thinking of the pg_filedump utility written by Patrick
Macdonald. See
http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/tools.html
regards, tom lane