| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem? |
| Date: | 2002-10-04 03:07:09 |
| Message-ID: | 16812.1033700829@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> When talking of near-current systems with 64 bit off_t you are not
> going to find one without support for 64 bit integral types.
I tend to agree with Giles on this point. A non-integral representation
of off_t is theoretically possible but I don't believe it exists in
practice. Before going far out of our way to allow it, we should first
require some evidence that it's needed on a supported or
likely-to-be-supported platform.
time_t isn't guaranteed to be an integral type either if you read the
oldest docs about it ... but no one believes that in practice ...
regards, tom lane
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