Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > "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. Didn't byteas used to get printed as hex? Even in psql they're now being printed in the escaped octet sequence. When did this change? -- greg
