Re: Should logtape.c blocks be of type long?

Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Having said that, I'm not sure it's worth the trouble of changing.
>> The platforms where there's a difference are probably not muscular
>> enough that anyone would ever get past 16TB in a temp file anyhow.

> As things stand, a 64-bit windows installation would have any CLUSTER
> of a table that exceeds 16TiB fail, possibly pretty horribly (I
> haven't thought through the consequences much). This is made more
> likely by the fact that we've made tuplesort faster in the past few
> releases (gains which the MAX_KILOBYTES restriction won't impinge on
> too much, particularly in Postgres 10). I find that unacceptable, at
> least for Postgres 10.

[ shrug... ] If you're excited enough about it to do the work, I won't
stand in your way. But I don't find it to be a stop-ship issue.

regards, tom lane