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[Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 11:49 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> I've just upgraded to Maverick, and it appears to be much stricter about
> strings vs bytes. 8-bit strings are getting treated as bytes, leading to
> "ProgrammingError: operator does not exist: text = bytea"
> 
> Getting stricter about bytes vs strings is probably a good long-term
> idea anyway, but I just thought folks should know about this.
I've switched back to python-psycopg2 from Lucid (2.0.13-2ubuntu2) for
the time being.

Also useful is "aptitude hold python-psycopg2", so apt won't attempt to
upgrade to the newer version unless you explicitly tell it to.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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