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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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I wrote:
>> This looks like a pgadmin bug ...

> Looking at it, I'm betting somebody thought this was a cute way to
> set bytea_output if it exists, without getting a failure on servers
> too old to have it.  We added that in 9.0, so maybe it's not quite
> old enough to make it a moot point; but failing on RO servers is
> not nice either.  Anyway, yeah, it's pgadmin's problem to fix.

Better idea:

select set_config('bytea_output','escape',false) from pg_settings where na=
me =3D 'bytea_output';

This is depressingly lacking in safe schema-qualification, btw.

			regards, tom lane