Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Meaning what? That even if he'd recompile PostgreSQL to
> support large files, the "pg_dump >outfile" would still choke
> ... duh!
I'm simply reporting what I've heard from dbadmins who are actually
running large installations on Solaris: build pg_dump one way, it
can output more than 2Gb, build it the other way and it can't.
Arguing with experimental facts is generally futile...
regards, tom lane