**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)
