Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?

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@gmx.net