Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au> writes:
> On 10/10/2012 02:38 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> On Windows, that doesn't seem terribly surprising: Windows will probably
>> do newline munging on the process's stdout, which will corrupt
>> compressed data since it's not plain text.
> pg_dump might want to refuse to write to stdout when in a non-plain-text
> mode on Windows if that's the case.
Actually, a look at the pg_dump code says that it does
setmode(fileno(stdout), O_BINARY);
so either my diagnosis is wrong or there's some reason why that setting
didn't take.
regards, tom lane