From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au> |
Subject: | Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem? |
Date: | 2002-10-23 21:52:52 |
Message-ID: | 6156.1035409972@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> First we need to decide what we want to happen and after that think about
> how to implement it. Given sizeof(off_t) > sizeof(long) and no fseeko(),
> we have the following options:
It seems obvious to me that there are no platforms that offer
sizeof(off_t) > sizeof(long) but have no API for doing seeks with off_t.
That would be just plain silly. IMHO it's acceptable for us to fail at
configure time if we can't figure out how to seek.
The question is *which* seek APIs we need to support. Are there any
besides fseeko() and fgetpos()?
regards, tom lane
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