<p>On 19 Jan 2012 21:00, "Robert Haas" <<a href="mailto:robertmhaas@gmail.com">robertmhaas@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br/> > I agree. It occurs to me that we recently changed the default *text*<br /> > output format for
byteafor reasons not dissimilar to those<br /> > contemplated here. Presumably, that's a much more disruptive
change,<br/> > and yet we've had minimal complaints because anyone who gets bitten<br /> > can easily set
bytea_output='escape'and the problem goes away.<p>I had a run in with this. JDBC driver versions < 9.0 with the
defaultconfiguration resulted in silent data corruption. The fix was easy, but not having an useful error was what
reallybothered me.<p>--<br /> Ants Aasma