Re: pg_dump large-file support > 16GB

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 09:58 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no> writes:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 10:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Is that a plain text, tar, or custom dump (-Ft or -Fc)?  Is the behavior
> >> different if you just write to stdout instead of using --file?
>
> > - In this example, it is a plain text (--format=3Dp).
> > - If I write to stdout and redirect to a file, the dump finnish without
> > problems and I get a dump-text-file over 16GB without problems.
>
> In that case, you have a glibc or filesystem bug and you should be
> reporting it to Red Hat.  The *only* difference between writing to
> stdout and writing to a --file option is that in one case we use
> the preopened "stdout" FILE* and in the other case we do
> fopen(filename, "w").  Your report therefore is stating that there
> is something broken about fopen'd files.
>

Thanks for the information. I will contact RH.

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University of Oslo, Norway

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