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Do not add metadata to bytea field data

Dr Catherine Pitt requested to merge bytea_field_handling into master

Our policy in Chemistry for binary data is that bytea columns should contain only the contents of the file being stored, and any metadata required about what sort of file it contains is stored elsewhere, eg another column alongside or else there is a convention for the bytea column.

This updates the code that uploads changed bytea fields to no longer add metadata.

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