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