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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?
Date
Msg-id 200210240237.g9O2bn400622@candle.pha.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?  (Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>)
List pgsql-hackers
Philip Warner wrote:
> At 10:03 PM 23/10/2002 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >It is much cleaner to just duplicate the entire API so you don't have
> >any limitations or failure cases.
> 
> We may still end up using macros in pg_dump to cope with cases where off_t 
> & fseeko are not defined - if there are any. I presume we would then just 
> revert to calling fseek/ftell etc.

Well, we have fseeko falling back to fseek already, so that is working
fine.  I don't think we will find any OS's without off_t.  We just need
a little smarts.  Let me see if I can work on it now.

--  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610)
359-1001+  If your life is a hard drive,     |  13 Roberts Road +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Newtown Square,
Pennsylvania19073
 


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Philip Warner
Date:
Subject: Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?
Next
From: Giles Lean
Date:
Subject: Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?