"Steve McWilliams" <smcwilliams(at)EmprisaNetworks(dot)com> writes:
> I notice that non-printables in bytea values are being spit out by pg_dump
> using escaped octet sequences even when the "-Fc" option is present
> specifying use of the custom binary output format rather than plain text
> format. This bloats the size of bytea values in the dump file by a factor
> of 3+ typically.
No, because the subsequent compression step should buy back most of
that.
regards, tom lane