Re: BYTEA / DBD::Pg change in 9.0 beta - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> writes:
> --On 18. Mai 2010 23:20:26 +0200 Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc> wrote:
>> May I ask whats the reason is for "breaking" the compatibillity?

> "Efficency", if i am allowed to call it this way. The new hex 
> representation should be more efficient to retrieve and to handle than the 
> old one. I think bytea_output was set to hex for testing purposes on the 
> first hand, but not sure wether there was a consensus to leave it there 
> finally later.

Yeah, we intentionally set it that way initially to help find stuff that
needs to be updated (as DBD::Pg evidently does).  It's still TBD whether
9.0.0 will ship with that default or not.
        regards, tom lane