Vladimir Kokovic <kokovic.vladi...@gmail.com> writes: > I think that empty bytea shoukd be like in 8.4, without \\x !
We could do that, but it seems completely cosmetic. The real problem here is that you've got client-side code that doesn't understand the hex-based format. It's going to break as soon as it sees a non-empty bytea, so what's the use of trying to make the empty-string case backwards compatible? It's probably better you find out about the incompatibility sooner, so you can get on with fixing the real problem. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs