> > You should run the Cygwin tools from Cygwin. They work fine
> against a
> > native backend.
>
> Thanks, I'll have to wait for the port of P8.0.0 rc4 to
> cygwin as the current cygwin port of pg_dump is 8.0.0 B2 and
> does not work correctly for reason of the error 'column
> "nsptablespace" does not exist' which is fixed in later
> pg_dump versions.
>
> Still intrigued as to why the native ports don't work though.
Cygwin has a different handling of console input/output than the windows
command prompt. I've seen similar weird errors with other native windows
tools on the cygwin shell.
//Magnus