Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Is there a reason we don't support base64 as a bytea_output output
> option, except that no one has implemented it?
How about "we already have one too many bytea output formats"?
I don't think forcing code to try to support still another one
is a great thing ... especially not if it couldn't be reliably
distinguished from the hex format.
regards, tom lane