Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 06:07, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 08 August 2002 05:36 pm, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> > Matt Kirkwood wrote:
>
> > > I just spent some of the morning helping a customer build Pg 7.2.1 from
> > > source in order to get Linux largefile support in pg_dump etc. They
> > > possibly would have kept using the binary RPMs if they had this feature.
>
> And you added this by doing what, exactly?  I'm not familiar with pg_dump
> largefile support as a standalone feature.

As far as I can make out from the libc docs, largefile support is
automatic if the macro _GNU_SOURCE is defined and the kernel supports
large files.

Is that a correct understanding? or do I actually need to do something
special to ensure that pg_dump supports large files?

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