On Fri, 26 Dec 2014, Dave Cramer wrote:

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>       Did you change this for the slony user, or the user that does the original insert/update on the table, or both?
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The conversion from  bytea to text happens as part of the log trigger.
The log trigger talks all of the columns (bytea, text, integer,float etc..) 
and converts them to a text array that gets stored in sl_log


So I think you'd need to set that for the application user.



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>             On 24 December 2014 at 10:20, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at afilias.info> wrote:
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>                   I'll bet the log trigger (C/SPI) hard codes this encoding in src/backend/slony1_funcs.c, but
>             it's not too obvious
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