Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mark Kirkwood
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS
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Msg-id 3D54A0F3.8030801@slingshot.co.nz
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
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Lamar Owen wrote:

>
>And you added this by doing what, exactly?  I'm not familiar with pg_dump
>largefile support as a standalone feature.
>

Enabling largefile support for the utilities was accomplished by :

CFLAGS="-O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" ./configure ...

It seemed to me that the ability to dump databases >2G without gzip,
split etc was a "good thing". What do you think ?

>
>
>You have this wrong.  The distributions do periodically sync up with my
>revision, and I with theirs, but they do their own packaging.
>
I see.... so if you enabled such support, they they would probably sync
that too ?



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