Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
>> Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> wrote:
>>> Another approach would be to just dump bytea columns in binary
>>> format only (not sure how doable that is, though).
>
>> If that's not doable, perhaps a base64 option for bytea COPY?
>
> I'm thinking plain old pairs-of-hex-digits might be the best
> tradeoff if conversion speed is the criterion.
That's a lot less space-efficient than base64, though.
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