Re: changing from postgreSQL 8.3 to 9.0

Malm Paul <paul.malm@saabgroup.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a database created on ver 8.3 an have restored the database in a new
> database in PostgreSQL 9.0.
> In the database i'm using a column storing "bytea".
>
> When trying to read the database with my java application, I have problems
> reading from the bytea-stream.

You can set bytea_output from 'hex' (now default) to 'escape'
(traditional format). You can do that in the postgresq.conf (for the
whole cluster), via ALTER DATABASE or per session.


HTH.


Andreas
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