Thanks Peter. This is clarifying the problems that I was having with the dump. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 11:20 AM To: Carlos; 'pgsql-general@postgresql.org' Subject: Re: Option required to dump bytea fields? Carlos wrote: > Do I need to use the -b option in pg_dump to dump bytea fields? No, that is for "large objects", which are completely unrelated to bytea columns. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster