joynes wrote: > What I really want to see is the hexadecimal or octal value > of the bytes of the retrieved data. Can postgres give me > this somehow (without exporting tables to files and look at > the files). Maybe 'decode' can help you: test=> SELECT decode('10EUR', 'escape'); decode ---------------- 10\342\202\254 (1 row) Yours, Laurenz Albe ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq