Antananarivo, Madagascar - April 08, 2025

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 is a maintenance release that fixes a major bug when dumping data from tables with the dollar sign in their name or namespace.

• Set application_name to program name when connecting to PostgreSQL.
• Fix missing data when dumping a table with the dollar sign in its name or the schema name.

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.

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/pg_dumpbinary/issues