Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 20:47, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > Here is a modified version of Philip's patch that has the changes Tom
> > suggested;  treating off_t as an integral type.  I did light testing on
> > my BSD/OS machine that has 8-byte off_t but I don't have 4 gigs of free
> > space to test larger files.  
> I can make an account for anyone that wants to play on UnixWare 7.1.3.

If you have 7.3, you can just test this way:1) apply the patch2) run the regression tests3) pg_dump -Fc regression
>/tmp/x4)pg_restore  -Fc  </tmp/x
 

That's all I did and it worked.

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