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

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?
Date: 2002-10-01 20:03:54
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0210012023090.1149-100000@localhost.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> Yes, it does --- the implication is that the custom format, at least,
> can't support dumps > 4Gb. What exactly is pg_dump writing off_t's
> into files for; maybe there's not really a problem?

That's kind of what I was wondering, too.

Not that it's an excuse, but I think that large file access through zlib
won't work anyway. Zlib uses the integer types in fairly random ways.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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