Potentially serious migration issue from 7.1.3 to 7.2 (or 7.3)

Hello,

   We are experiencing some very strange behavior with a restore that we
are trying to do. The command we are using to do the backup is:

   /bin/su - larry -c \"/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump $dbname
--superuser=larry -o --format=c -b -f /backups/$dbname.`date +%a`.tar.gz

   The backups run, we appear unable to restore them. The command we are
using to try and restore the information is:

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_restore -d dominion dominion.Fri.tar

When we run pg_restore we get the following -- thoughts???:

   DEBUG:  connection: host=[local] user=postgres database=dominion
DEBUG:  InitPostgres
DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
DEBUG:  query: select getdatabaseencoding()
DEBUG:  ProcessQuery
DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
DEBUG:  query: SELECT version()
DEBUG:  ProcessQuery
DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
DEBUG:  query: select usesuper from pg_user where usename = 'postgres'
DEBUG:  ProcessQuery
DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
DEBUG:  query: --
-- Selected TOC Entries:
--
--
-- TOC Entry ID 2 (OID 0)
--
-- Name: Max OID Type: <Init> Owner:
-- Data Pos: 0 (Length 0)
--

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE pgdump_oid (dummy int4);
DEBUG:  ProcessUtility: --
-- Selected TOC Entries:
--
--
-- TOC Entry ID 2 (OID 0)
--
-- Name: Max OID Type: <Init> Owner:
-- Data Pos: 0 (Length 0)
--

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE pgdump_oid (dummy int4);
DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
DEBUG:  StartTransactionCommand
DEBUG:  query:
COPY pgdump_oid WITH OIDS FROM stdin;
DEBUG:  ProcessUtility:
COPY pgdump_oid WITH OIDS FROM stdin;
pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
DEBUG:  CommitTransactionCommand
pq_flush: send() failed: Broken pipe
pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
DEBUG:  proc_exit(0)
DEBUG:  shmem_exit(0)
DEBUG:  exit(0)

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