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@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ I try to execute a query but it fails with the error *not all arguments converte
>>> cur.execute("INSERT INTO foo VALUES (%s)", ("bar",)) # correct
>>> cur.execute("INSERT INTO foo VALUES (%s)", ["bar"]) # correct
-My database is Unicode, but I receive all the strings as UTF-8 `str`. Can I receive `unicode` objects instead?
+My database is Unicode, but I receive all the strings as UTF-8 `!str`. Can I receive `!unicode` objects instead?
The following magic formula will do the trick::
psycopg2.extensions.register_type(psycopg2.extensions.UNICODE)
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ Transferring binary data from PostgreSQL 9.0 doesn't work.
earlier. Three options to solve the problem are:
- set the bytea_output__ parameter to ``escape`` in the server;
- - use ``SET bytea_output TO escape`` in the client before reading binary
- data;
+ - execute the database command ``SET bytea_output TO escape;`` in the
+ session before reading binary data;
- upgrade the libpq library on the client to at least 9.0.
.. __: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/datatype-binary.html