Re: Gripe: bytea_output default => data corruption

Dear Griper!,

fortunately someone showed a easy 'fix'

ALTER DATABASE foo SET bytea_output='escape' ;

Regds
Rajesh Kumar Mallah.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:03 PM, ljb <ljb9832(at)pobox(dot)com> wrote:
> rod(at)iol(dot)ie wrote:
>>...
>> In fairness, it *is* flagged in the release note - it's the first item
>> under "data types" in the list of incompatibilities.
>
> Quote:
>    "bytea output now appears in hex format by default (Peter Eisentraut)
>     The server parameter bytea_output can be used to select the
>     traditional output format if needed for compatibility."
>
> This is inadequate, because it fails to warn that pre-9.0 clients will
> decode the data incorrectly without reporting an error.
>
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