**Zurich, Switzerland - May 25th, 2023** ## pg_dumpbinary
`pg_dumpbinary` dumps a PostgreSQL database to a binary format. The resulting dump must be restored using `pg_restorebinary`, which is provided. pg_dumpbinary 2.11 was released today, it fixes a major issue at restore time. - Fix restoration of extensions tables from the dumps. Data from these tables was not restored since the use of pg_restore pre-data section to retrieve the list of tables from the dump. pg_dumpbinary now create a new file into the dump directory: `extensions-tables.lst`. At restore time, command line filters on schemas and tables are also applied on this list if you need to exclude some of them. - Assume backward compatibility with old dumps that does not have the file `extensions-tables.lst` generated. A full list of changes and acknowledgments can be found [here](https://github.com/lzlabs/pg_dumpbinary/releases/tag/v2.11) `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)
