Grenoble, France - August 21th, 2020 ##pg_dumpbinary 2.3 released
`pg_dumpbinary` is a program used to dump a PostgreSQL database with data dumped in binary format. The resulting dump must be restored using `pg_restorebinary` that is provided with this tool. `pg_dumpbinary 2.3` was released today. This release fixes the setting of sequences values after restoring data from binary a dump where sequences values from PostgreSQL extensions was not restored. `pg_dumpbinary` is useful in some particular situations: * you have bytea that can not be exported by pg_dump because the total size of the escape/hex output exceed 1Gb. * you have custom type that stores `\0` internally in bytea but data are returned as char/varchar/text which truncate data after the '\0'. In this case pg_dump will export data in the output type which will result in data lost. * any other case where binary format can be useful. If you are in this case `pg_dumpbinary` will help you by dumping the PostgreSQL database in binary format. In all other cases you must use the `pg_dump`/`pg_restore` commands distributed with PostgreSQL. See documentation for a complete description of the features. ##Links & Credits `pg_dumpbinary` is an open project from LzLabs (https://www.lzlabs.com/). Any contribution to build a better tool is welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches using the GitHub tools. Links : * Documentation: https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/blob/master/README.md * Download: https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/releases/ * Support: use GitHub report tool at https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/issues
