**Antananarivo, Madagascar - June 04, 2025** ## pg_dumpbinary
`pg_dumpbinary` dumps a PostgreSQL database to a binary format. The resulting dump must be restored using `pg_restorebinary`, which is provided. This is a maintenance release that fixes some issues reported by users since last release and adds an new command line option to the `pg_restorebinary` command. * Add `-V, --verbose` option to `pg_restorebinary`. * Change directory to writable one when sudo -u is used to avoid pg_restore to complain about "could not change directory" when the current directory is not writable by the running user. In this case `pg_dumpbinary` and `pg_restorebinary` will require an absolute path respectively for output and input directory. * Do not import the `tmpdir()` method when importing File::Spec. * Fix returned error code when no input directory or missing parameters. `pg_dumpbinary` is useful when: * You have bytea that can not be exported by `pg_dump` because the total size of the escape/hex output exceeds 1Gb. * You have custom type that stores `\0` internally in bytea but data are exported by pg_dump as char/varchar/text. In this case pg_dump truncates all data after the first `\0`, resulting in data loss. * Other cases where a binary output format is useful. In these kinds of cases `pg_dumpbinary` helps by dumping the PostgreSQL database in a binary format. In all other cases the pg_dump/pg_restore commands distributed with PostgreSQL are preferred. See the documentation for a more complete description of available features. ## Links & Credits pg_dumpbinary is an Open Source project from [LzLabs GmbH](https://www.lzlabs.com/). Contributions and ideas are welcome. Send your ideas, features requests, or patches using GitHub's tools. Links : * Documentation: [https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/blob/master/README.md](https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/blob/master/README.md) * Download: [https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/releases/](https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/releases/) * Support: use GitHub report tool at [https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/pg_dumpbinary/issues](https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/pg_dumpbinary/issues)
