Re: bytea_output vs make installcheck

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:04 AM, neha khatri <nehakhatri5(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:.
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>> Attached are two options for doing that. One overrides bytea_output
>> locally where-ever needed, and the other overrides it for the entire
>> 'regression' database.
>>
>
> The solution that overrides bytea_output locally looks appropriate. It may
> not be required to change the format for entire database.
> Had there been a way to convert bytea_output from 'hex' to 'escape'
> internally, that could have simplified this customization even more.
>

Well, the conversion from 'hex' to 'escape' is available using the function
encode().
So the queries that are failing due to the setting bytea_output = escape,
can be wrapped under encode(), to obtain the result in 'escape' format.
Here is another way to resolve the same problem. The patch is attached.

Regards,
Neha