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From: Jasmin Dizdarevic <jasmin.dizdarevic@gmail.com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Which version of PostgreSQL should I use.
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 12:58:18 +0200
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	<4DDB54A6.9000006@postnewspapers.com.au>

Alright, I've misunderstood this issue. Do you have to escape bytea columns
during export or import? And how you would do this?

Ty


2011/5/24 Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>

> On 24/05/11 14:30, jasmin.dizdarevic@gmail.com wrote:
> > We had trbls with our drupal site, because some settings are stored in
> bytea columns. I think lobs are a problem too, but pls see the pg_dump docs
> for details.
>
> Is it possible that you are referring to the `bytea_output' setting in
> PostgreSQL 8.4 and above?
>
> If so, the issue isn't that pg_dump somehow fails to dump the bytea
> data. Rather, it's that drupal doesn't deal well with bytea data from
> newer versions of PostgreSQL until the bytea_output setting is changed
> to 'escape' because it doesn't understand the new hex format.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>

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