Trouble with pg_dump in 7.3.4

I'm using the following to backup a table from a database

pg_dump --table=tableName --clean --format p dbName

The file produced has all lines preceded by a space. Only the COPY such as
this ...

COPY rr_config (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o) FROM stdin;
69 2 \N \N mydevice ahash 1 \N \N
mydevice#10.86.209.205 \N \N \N 68 63
\.

seems to care. I get these errors:

ERROR: copy: line 2, Bad numeric input format ' '
lost synchronization with server, resetting connection

manually removing the space before the "\." fixes the problem.

Is there a workaround?

Thanks,
Frank