pg_dumpbinary v2.3 released

From: Gilles Darold via PostgreSQL Announce <announce-noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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Subject: pg_dumpbinary v2.3 released
Date: 2020-10-29 15:37:22
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##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

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