> I read a posting that the bytea datatype was refactored in version 9, and
> one indication was that twice as many bytes came out as went in...
I think the change in this default is what Chris is referring to:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-BYTEA-OUTPUT
This certainly could affect what you're doing.
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