Re: stat() on Windows might cause error if target file is largerthan 4GB

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 08:17:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, I was afraid of that.  We could invent a typedef "pg_struct_stat"
> that maps to the right thing, but using that everywhere would be a mighty
> invasive change :-(.

There are 130 places where "struct stat " is used, so I'd rather avoid
that.

> And we can't just "#define stat __stat64" because
> that would break the calls to stat().  Or wait, maybe we could do that
> and also have a one-liner function named __stat64 that would catch the
> calls and redirect to _stat64?

I don't think I grab your point here.  "#define stat __stat64" cannot
exist from the start so how would you do that?
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Michael