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To: PostgreSQL Announce <[email protected]>
Subject: pg_dumpbinary v2.19 released
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:13:23 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
**Antananarivo, Madagascar - April 08, 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 a major bug when dumping data from tables with the dollar
sign in their name or namespace.
- Set `application_name` to program name when connecting to PostgreSQL.
- Fix missing data when dumping a table with the dollar sign in its name
or the schema name.
`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)
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