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Tom Lane wrote:
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> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > LET_OS_MANAGE_FILESIZE is good way. I think one problem of this option I
> > fixed. It is size of offset. I went thru the code and did not see any
> > other problem there. However, how you mentioned it need more testing. I
> > going to take server with large disk array and I will test it.
>
> > I would like to add --enable-largefile switch to configure file to
> > enable access to wide group of users. What you think about it?
>
> Yeah, I was going to suggest the same thing --- but not with that switch
> name. We already use enable/disable-largefile to control whether 64-bit
> file access is built at all (this mostly affects pg_dump at the moment).
>
> I think the clearest way might be to flip the sense of the variable.
> I never found "LET_OS_MANAGE_FILESIZE" to be a good name anyway. I'd
> suggest "USE_SEGMENTED_FILES", which defaults to "on", and you can
> turn it off via --disable-segmented-files if configure confirms your
> OS has largefile support (thus you could not specify both this and
> --disable-largefile).
>
> regards, tom lane
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