--On Dienstag, Juli 07, 2009 18:07:08 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
> Enum. If we do this then it seems entirely fair that someone might
> want other settings someday. Also, it seems silly to pick a format
> partly on the grounds that it's expansible, and then not make the
> control GUC expansible. Perhaps
>
> SET bytea_output = [ hex | traditional ]
I like the enum much better, too, but
SET bytea_output = [ hex | escape ]
looks better to me (encode/decode are using something like this already).
-- Thanks
Bernd
