Posgres Adding braces at beginning and end of text (html) content

Hi All,

I'm fairly new to postgres and I'm having this peculiar problem.

I'm storing raw html in a text field and I want users who know HTML to
update the content in a textarea field.

The problem is postgres is adding braces to the begining and ending of
the content. On creation and every time I update.

This is:

I input:

<p>xyz <p/>
.........

into the text area field I save and view I see

{<p>xyz</p>

.........
}

On a subsequent update I see

{{<p>xyz</p>
........
}}

On another I see

{{<p>xyz</p>

....
}}

Not sure what is happening here?
I am using postgres 8.3 on windows