Re: PgAdmin 4.2 unable to connect to AWS Postgres read-replica instances

I wrote:
>> This looks like a pgadmin bug ...

> Looking at it, I'm betting somebody thought this was a cute way to
> set bytea_output if it exists, without getting a failure on servers
> too old to have it.  We added that in 9.0, so maybe it's not quite
> old enough to make it a moot point; but failing on RO servers is
> not nice either.  Anyway, yeah, it's pgadmin's problem to fix.

Better idea:

select set_config('bytea_output','escape',false) from pg_settings where name = 'bytea_output';

This is depressingly lacking in safe schema-qualification, btw.

            regards, tom lane