Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> writes: > 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? I think you're looking for "set bytea_output = escape". regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general