| From: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>, mark Kirkwood <markir(at)slingshot(dot)co(dot)nz>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS |
| Date: | 2002-08-09 06:34:48 |
| Message-ID: | 1028874889.31323.76.camel@linda |
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On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 06:07, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 08 August 2002 05:36 pm, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> > Matt Kirkwood wrote:
>
> > > I just spent some of the morning helping a customer build Pg 7.2.1 from
> > > source in order to get Linux largefile support in pg_dump etc. They
> > > possibly would have kept using the binary RPMs if they had this feature.
>
> And you added this by doing what, exactly? I'm not familiar with pg_dump
> largefile support as a standalone feature.
As far as I can make out from the libc docs, largefile support is
automatic if the macro _GNU_SOURCE is defined and the kernel supports
large files.
Is that a correct understanding? or do I actually need to do something
special to ensure that pg_dump supports large files?
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