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

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?
Date: 2002-10-24 01:37:20
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.0.20021024113443.028ed528@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 10:42 AM 23/10/2002 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>What I am concerned about are cases that fail at runtime, specifically
>during a restore of a >2gig file.

Please give an example that would still apply assuming we get a working
seek/tell pair that works with whatever we use as an offset?

If you are concerned about reading a dump file with 8 byte offsets on a
machine with 4 byte off_t, that case and it's permutations are already covered.

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