Re: BYTEA / DBD::Pg change in 9.0 beta

--On 18. Mai 2010 23:20:26 +0200 Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc> wrote:

> That was it. Knowing what the problem was I had no problem finding it in
> the release notes.
>
> May I ask whats the reason is for "breaking" the compatibillity?

"Efficency", if i am allowed to call it this way. The new hex 
representation should be more efficient to retrieve and to handle than the 
old one. I think bytea_output was set to hex for testing purposes on the 
first hand, but not sure wether there was a consensus to leave it there 
finally later.

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Thanks
Bernd