ProgrammingError: operator does not exist: text = bytea

The patch looks small enough to CP; we may need to make further
changes to our codebase too though.

Simply applying the core storm patch (a one-liner) locally did not solve this for me.

I tried it out and could fix tests by putting "unicode" around parameters in the right places (usually close to storm queries). I stopped doing this when I hit the first decoding errors. :(

It does not look to me like the new storm version will help us in any way rather we need to be fixing our code. But what about the transition? Can psycopg2.2. not be configured to be less strict here, maybe just issue warnings so that we can find the places we need to fix?

I have fallen back to python-psycopg2_2.0.13-2ubuntu2_i386 to ensure I can continue to work. This version could be in lp-deps if we cannot get a storm fix.

Foundations' current plan is to put the version Curtis specifies in lp-deps (Maris). Then that will give us breathing room to address the issues Henning describes (Stuart).