I have a bytea col which stores Java UUID data. When I run Select cast(uuid_col as varchar) from table limit 1 Output in pgadmin -=================== "A0000000000000000000000000000001" Output in psql ======== \x4130303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303031 is there some setting in psql output I need to take care of. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general