"Ryan Wells" <ryan.wells@soapware.com> writes:
> We have several tables that are used to store binary data as bytea (in
> this example image files),
Precompressed image formats, no doubt?
> pg_dump -i -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -F c -v -f "backupTest.backup" -t "public"."images" db_name
Try it with -Z0, or even drop the -Fc completely, since it's certainly
not very helpful on a single-table dump. Re-compressing already
compressed data is not only useless but impressively slow ...
Also, drop the -i, that's nothing but a foot-gun.
regards, tom lane