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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Questions about octal vs. hex for bytea
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In response to Questions about octal vs. hex for bytea  ("Reuven M. Lerner" <reuven@lerner.co.il>)
Responses Re: Questions about octal vs. hex for bytea  ("Reuven M. Lerner" <reuven@lerner.co.il>)
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"Reuven M. Lerner" <reuven@lerner.co.il> writes:
> My client is concerned that the internal representation has changed, and
> is asking me for a script that will change the representation, in order
> to save space (since hex occupies less space than octal).

This is complete nonsense.  The internal representation is just bytes.

            regards, tom lane

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