"nednieuws | charles" <charles@nednieuws.com> writes:
> The source db is PostgreSQL 7.4 and the target db is 7.3.3
pg_dump is not designed to handle downgrades --- its output is intended
to be loaded into pg_dump's own version or later. You should expect to
have to hand-edit the output to load it into an older version.
regards, tom lane