I just gave a try to the win32 binaries in my developpement environment. I first tested it with a small database and everything appeared to work OK.
Great Works !!!!!!
After that I tried to restore a bigger one (~16Go)
restore from a 7.1.3 dump (in -d mode) : restore is VERY slow. For a very simple table 3 int8 columns, I get 32 records per second (Bi Xeon 2.4 Ghz / ide 7200 disk / 2 Go RAM) while I get around 1000 per second on a linux box (the box is similar hardware except it is 10000 rpm scsi disk, but I don't think that explain all that difference). During the import, CPU is idle and the disk is working very hard.
While running pg_dump (the windows one) from a linux 7.4.1 database to windows, the speed is comparable to linux->linux, but I got the following message :
ERROR : missing data for column "p32134"
CONTEXT: COPY c2674, line ....
After analyzing the dump, it seems to be caused by a ctrl-Z (1A) character embeded into a text column which seem to confuse the win32 psql ...