Re: bytea vs. pg_dump

On Monday 03 August 2009 22:11:08 Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm starting to look at this patch.  I observe that it's setting the
> default output format to HEX.  If changing the default behavior was
> agreed to, or even discussed, I do not remember where.  Shouldn't the
> default stay the same?

I did pose that question in my patch submission email.

Unless there is overwhelming support in favor of changing, we probably 
shouldn't change it, at least not yet.