Re: [BUGS] Possible bug with BYTEA and JDBC

I saw this on the bugs list first and replied there, but I figured I ought
to repost it here as well...

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Kris Jurka wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Gregory Kotsaftis wrote:
>
>> postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar
>> postgresql-8.5alpha3
>>
>> I followed the steps in the blob tutorial and tried to test the BYTEA
>> example:
>
> The 8.5/9.0 release has changed the default bytea output format and the 8.4
> JDBC driver does not support it. You've got a couple of options:
>
> 1) Change the bytea format back to the 8.4 supported format. Set
> bytea_output = escape in your postgresql.conf.
>
> 2) Build the JDBC driver from CVS which does support the new format.
>
> 3) Use an 8.4 server.
>
> Kris Jurka
>