packaging Postgres binary dump files

[Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>]

PostBooks distributes their schema as a Postgres binary dump file for
use with pg_restore

They are available for download here (not in the source tarball):

  
http://sourceforge.net/projects/postbooks/files/03%20PostBooks-databases/4.1.0/

The pg_dump documentation explains the binary format features:

   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/app-pgdump.html

Is this format suitable for making a source package or do we need to
load it into Postgres and then pg_dump it again as text / SQL?

I would prefer to simply distribute the original files so that people
can compare with upstream's checksums if they wish.