Re: [HACKERS] bytea_output output of base64

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 04:08:58PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Is there a reason we don't support base64 as a bytea_output output
> > option, except that no one has implemented it?
> 
> How about "we already have one too many bytea output formats"?
> I don't think forcing code to try to support still another one
> is a great thing ... especially not if it couldn't be reliably
> distinguished from the hex format.

Is there a reason we chose hex over base64?

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