How to display blob value using x'abc' binary string literal syntax?

Question

You can easily enter a blob value using the x\'abc\' syntax, but is there a way to display it that way too? As shown below, selecting directly, or implicitly converting to a

Answer 1

select quote(uid) from blobs

returns:

X'0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF'

and if you really need it in lowercase, you can use:

select lower(quote(uid)) from blobs