Re: Gripe: bytea_output default => data corruption

On 13/10/2010 22:03, ljb wrote:
> rod@iol.ie wrote:
>> ...
>> In fairness, it *is* flagged in the release note - it's the first item
>> under "data types" in the list of incompatibilities.
>
> Quote:
>      "bytea output now appears in hex format by default (Peter Eisentraut)
>       The server parameter bytea_output can be used to select the
>       traditional output format if needed for compatibility."
>
> This is inadequate, because it fails to warn that pre-9.0 clients will
> decode the data incorrectly without reporting an error.

I thought myself that the word "incompatibility" was fairly
self-explanatory... :-)

Ray.


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