> >Franlin: are you making pg_dump from local or remote box and is this a > >clean install? Try fresh patched win2k install and see what happens. > He claimed this was local, not network. It is certainly an > intriguing possibility that W2K and WinXP handle bytea > differently. I'm not competent to comment on that however. can you make small extraction of this file (~ 100 rows), zip to file and send to me off list? I'll test it vs. a 2000 and xp server and try to reproduce your results. Merlin
