Postgres 9.6.3 pg_dump issue

Hello Support Team:

The server version is:
PostgreSQL 9.6.3 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.4.7
20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17), 64-bit

pg_dump 9.6.3 does not dump the schema with this command:

$ pg_dump --create --clean --if-exists --schema-only <dbname> -f <file>

The missing 'public' schema was not an issue in 9.6.2.

Here is the output of pg_dump command:

pg_dump: [archiver (db)] query failed: ERROR: schema "public" does not
exist
LINE 1: ...::regclass AND pip.objsubid = 0 AND pip.objoid <> 'public'::...
^
pg_dump: [archiver (db)] query was: SELECT n.tableoid, n.oid, n.nspname,
(SELECT rolname FROM pg_catalog.pg_roles WHERE oid = nspowner) AS
rolname, (SELECT pg_catalog.array_agg(acl) FROM (SELECT
pg_catalog.unnest(coalesce(n.nspacl,pg_catalog.acldefault('n',n.nspowner)))
AS acl EXCEPT SELECT
pg_catalog.unnest(coalesce(pip.initprivs,pg_catalog.acldefault('n',n.nspowner))))
as foo) as nspacl, (SELECT pg_catalog.array_agg(acl) FROM (SELECT
pg_catalog.unnest(coalesce(pip.initprivs,pg_catalog.acldefault('n',n.nspowner)))
AS acl EXCEPT SELECT
pg_catalog.unnest(coalesce(n.nspacl,pg_catalog.acldefault('n',n.nspowner))))
as foo) as rnspacl, NULL as initnspacl, NULL as initrnspacl FROM
pg_namespace n LEFT JOIN pg_init_privs pip ON (n.oid = pip.objoid AND
pip.classoid = 'pg_namespace'::regclass AND pip.objsubid = 0 AND
pip.objoid <> 'public'::regnamespace)

The similar message is in the server log.

Please advise.

Thanks,
Vlad