Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> I expect that your problem is that 8.1 allowed some characters in that >> you didn't want. You probably need to use iconv to change those >> characters to whatever are actually valid. > \x09 is a tab. I think this behavior was changed in 8.3.something (made > it display as actual tabs instead of escaping them) Note that that's a psql behavior not a backend behavior. I wonder if the OP updated his server but is still using 8.3.early psql. 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