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: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?
Date: 2002-10-24 02:36:20
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.0.20021024123434.0281cb38@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 10:03 PM 23/10/2002 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>It is much cleaner to just duplicate the entire API so you don't have
>any limitations or failure cases.

We may still end up using macros in pg_dump to cope with cases where off_t
& fseeko are not defined - if there are any. I presume we would then just
revert to calling fseek/ftell etc.

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