Extra information in pg_dump

[James William Pye]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:49:24AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adrian Klaver:
> 
> > I did a plain text dump of a database I was working on and found the 
> > following.  The first function was created against PostgresPy. The second 
> > function is the same but created against plpythonu. Any clues as what all the 
> > escape sequences are for?
> 
> I haven't checked to be sure, but it looks like Python bytecode (the
> thing normally stored in .pyc files).

That's right. This is actually a surprise to me. I didn't know(or forgot) you
could explicitly specify the probin field in CREATE FUNCTION.

This is unlikely to cause any trouble as the source is unconditionally compiled
on CREATE. Of course, this means that this dumped bytecode is useless noise.