but I just want to make it clear that my problem has *not* been resolved, and I suspect more strongly than ever that pg_dump is at fault.
I don't know what I could possibly add to what I've already posted describing my issue, so I probably shouldn't repeat myself any further now, but simply hope that somebody will read my previous posts and be able to help me.
Pretty much. Consider too that the people likely to be of help here (a significant subset of available hackers given that it seems to be Windows only) are busy wrapping up coding for version 13 due out within a month.