Hi, I have a patch for Glorp(DBX) PostgreSQL to support the newer bytea hex format (see file:///usr/local/pgsql/share/doc/html/datatype-binary.html#AEN5037). I can't write to the repository, so here it is: PostgreSQLPlatform>>#convertSQLStringToByteArray: aString for: aType aString isNil ifTrue: [ ^ nil ]. ^ (aString beginsWith: '\x') ifTrue: [ self convertHexSQLStringToByteArray: aString ] ifFalse: [ self convertEscapeSQLStringToByteArray: aString ] PostgreSQLPlatform>>#convertEscapeSQLStringToByteArray: aString | aStream str | aStream := (ByteArray new: aString size // 4) writeStream. str := aString readStream. [str atEnd] whileFalse: [ |nextChar| nextChar := str next. aStream nextPut: (nextChar = $\ ifTrue: [str peek = $\ ifTrue: [str next asInteger] ifFalse: [Number readFrom: (str next: 3) base: 8]] ifFalse: [nextChar asInteger]) ]. aStream close. ^aStream contents PostgreSQLPlatform>>#convertHexSQLStringToByteArray: aString ^ ByteArray new: (aString size // 2) - 1 streamContents: [ :out | | in | (in := aString readStream) skip: 2. [ in atEnd ] whileFalse: [ out nextPut: (Number readFrom: (in next: 2) base: 16) ] ] #convertEscapeSQLStringToByteArray: is the old code, unmodified; #convertHexSQLStringToByteArray: is new. This might be of use upstream as well, I don't really know. If it would help, I could save this as an MC package somewhere. Regards, Sven