Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?
Date: 2002-10-04 03:15:29
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.0.20021004131217.0282b2a0@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 11:07 PM 3/10/2002 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>A non-integral representation
>of off_t is theoretically possible but I don't believe it exists in
>practice.

Excellent. So I can just read/write the bytes in an appropriate order and
expect whatever size it is to be a single intXX.

Fine with me, unless anybody voices another opinion in the next day, I will
proceed. I just have this vague recollection of seeing a header file with a
more complex structure for off_t. I'm probably dreaming.

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