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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Empty bytea format - 9.1devel pg_dump and psql
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Msg-id 1287416538-sup-4455@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Empty bytea format - 9.1devel pg_dump and psql  (Vladimir Kokovic <kokovic.vladimir@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Empty bytea format - 9.1devel pg_dump and psql  (Vladimir Kokovic <kokovic.vladimir@gmail.com>)
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Excerpts from Vladimir Kokovic's message of sáb oct 16 15:45:02 -0300 2010:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure whether it is OK, a blank format for bytea, which is presented
> in 9.1devel (pg_dump and psql)

Yeah, an empty bytea is now output differently by default (just like any
other bytea).  The \x means "this bytea is output as a sequence of hex
pairs"; followed by no other chars, it represents an empty bytea.

Is this a problem?  I find it slightly funny on stuff like \d default
values and such, but not enough to merit a special case.

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