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I have a column that is bytea in postgres, and I can use a statement like this to get this kind of output:
select encode(mycolumn,'escape') from personTable;
and get:
254\355\000?sr\000?java.util.HashMap??\332\301\303?`\321?\000?F\000
loadFactorI\000 thresholdxp?@\000\000\000\000\000?w?\000\000\000?\000\000\000?t\000?
userIdt\000
USER2200000x
How would I see this in plain text? It is indeed storing a java.util.HashMap-
This is really a Java issue rather than a PostgreSQL issue.
personTable.mycolumnis holding a byte-string that was created using the Java Serialization API, and to retrieve the original object that the byte-string represents, you need to use that same API. (See “Discover the secrets of the Java Serialization API” for sample code.)