Re: configure options

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Siddharth Shah *EXTERN* <siddharth(dot)shah(at)elitecore(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: configure options
Date: 2008-12-01 13:10:26
Message-ID: 2700.1228137026@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Albe Laurenz wrote:
>> My recommendation is to leave this switch alone and use the default;
>> you should not encounter any problems.

> Agreed - the cost for supporting it is zero, AFAIK, so there is no
> reason to turn it off unless the OS has a buggy implementation.

Yeah. The reason it's not documented is we don't officially support it
--- it's something that autoconf adds on its own. It would only be
interesting if autoconf's test for largefile support obtained the wrong
answer on some platform; which is probably not an interesting case
anymore anyway.

regards, tom lane

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