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pg_dumpbinary v2.16 released

Posted on 2024-04-06 by HexaCluster
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Vientiane, Laos - April 6, 2024

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 release fixes data restoration for tables where schema or table names contain the dollar sign ($).

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. Contributions and ideas are welcome. Send your ideas, features requests, or patches using GitHub's tools.

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