Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> However bytea has an inconvenient string representation. Really I would prefer
> if bytea were *always* read and written in hex format.
Yeah, the escaping rule is a mess: hard to work with and even less
storage-efficient than hex would be.
> We could have a guc to
> enable this but it would make it hard to write code which would function
> consistently as part of a larger application.
Well, the datetime types have had DateStyle for years and people have
managed to deal with it, so maybe you're overestimating the problem.
regards, tom lane
