Re: bytea vs. pg_dump

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
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>> 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.  The main problem
> in any case would be to decide how to control the format option.
>
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Yeah.  Any ideas on how to do that? I can't think of anything very clean 
offhand.

cheers

andrew