Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> writes:
> That's a good idea, but first I'll still need to run it by my sysadmin
> wrt space -- our dump files are around 22GB when we can let them finish
> these days.
Given that we're now speculating about regex problems, you could do a
test run of "pg_dump -s" with logging enabled; that shouldn't take an
unreasonable amount of time or space.
regards, tom lane