Re: large file limitation - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: large file limitation
Date
Msg-id 11436.1011405852@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: large file limitation  (Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>)
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Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> writes:
>     Meaning  what?  That  even  if  he'd  recompile PostgreSQL to
>     support large files, the "pg_dump >outfile" would still choke
>     ... duh!

I'm simply reporting what I've heard from dbadmins who are actually
running large installations on Solaris: build pg_dump one way, it
can output more than 2Gb, build it the other way and it can't.
Arguing with experimental facts is generally futile...

            regards, tom lane

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