| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, 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: | 2002-10-23 21:50:34 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0210231933410.928-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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Bruce Momjian writes:
> I think you are right that we have to not use off_t and use long if we
> can't find a proper 64-bit seek function, but what are the failure modes
> of doing this? Exactly what happens for larger files?
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:
1. Disable access to large files.
2. Seek in some other way.
What's it gonna be?
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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