Hi, Is Postgres's byte escape syntax something that could be set by the client? I am running into a strange problem when I access postgres try two different Ruby ORM's. I am guessing that one of them is doing something funny to the client connections. Looking at the Ruby C-driver, it's calling PQescapeBytea rather then PQescapeByteaConn. And tracing PQescapeBytea, sometimes it escapes '\' as '\\', as describe in the manual, sometimes it doesn't do that escape. But it always escape the single quote character ' . All the connections are using UTF-8 encoding. I wrote my own byte escaping function in Ruby, which does escaping according to the 8.4 manual, but again it works for some connections, but not others. Howard -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general