"Steve McWilliams" <smcwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I notice that non-printables in bytea values are being spit out by pg_dump > using escaped octet sequences even when the "-Fc" option is present > specifying use of the custom binary output format rather than plain text > format. This bloats the size of bytea values in the dump file by a factor > of 3+ typically. No, because the subsequent compression step should buy back most of that. regards, tom lane
