The old 'escape' encoding used by PostgreSQL 8.4 and prior was pretty helpful for getting human-readable strings in psql. It seems this functionality was removed in PostgreSQL 9.0. Was this an accident or a deliberate decision? Could we get it back, please? -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general