[ANNOUNCE] pg_filedump 10.0 released

pg_filedump 10.0 released

pg_filedump is a utility to format PostgreSQL heap/index/control files
into a human-readable form. You can format/dump the files several
ways, as listed in the Invocation section, as well as dumping straight
binary.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pg_filedump

New in version 10.0 is the ability to decode tuples by giving a list
of type names:
 -D  Decode tuples using given comma separated list of types.     List of supported types:       * bigint       *
bigserial      * bool       * char       * charN     -- char(n)       * date       * float       * float4       *
float8      * int       * json       * macaddr       * name       * oid       * real       * serial       * smallint
  * smallserial       * text       * time       * timestamp       * timetz       * uuid       * varchar       *
varcharN-- varchar(n)       * xid       * xml       * ~        -- ignores all attributes left in a tuple
 

For instance, pg_attribute can be decoded like this:
   pg_filedump -D oid,name,oid,int,smallint,~ path/to/segment/1249

This feature was implemented by Aleksander Alekseev, reviewed by
Dmitry Ivanov, tested by Dmitry Ivanov and Grigoriy Smolkin.