pg_dumpbinary v2.4 released

**Zurich, Switzerland - June 22th, 2021**

## pg_dumpbinary

`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 2.4 was released today, this new release adds a new
command line option to `pg_restorebinary`, `--truncate` to be able to
empty the tables before restoring data. This can be helpful when
`pg_restorebinary` is used to refresh data from some tables.

`pg_dumpbinary` is useful in some 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 GmbH](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](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)