Bruce,
Please update HISTORY entries for bytea changes.
Remove:
Bytea comparison improvements, \### now requires three octal digits
Add:
Bug Fixes
bytea \### now requires valid three digit octal number
Types
Bytea comparison improvements, now supports =, !=, >, >=, <, and <=
Bytea now supports btree indexes
Bytea now supports LIKE, LIKE...ESCAPE, NOT LIKE, NOT LIKE...ESCAPE
Bytea now supports string concatenation
New Bytea functions - position(), substring, trim, btrim, and length
New encode() function mode, 'escaped', converts minimally escaped
bytea to/from text
Enhancements
New libpq function, PQescapeBytea escapes binary string suitably for
use as a SQL string literal
Joe