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From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: How large file is really large - pathconf results
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Msg-id 47E36F67.2060500@sun.com
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In response to Re: How large file is really large - pathconf results  (Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>)
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Reini Urban napsal(a):
> 
> cygwin 1.5 on NTFS. But 1.7 will a have much larger _PC_PATH_MAX.
> 
> _PC_FILESIZEBITS undefined _PC_LINK_MAX = 8 _PC_NAME_MAX = 260 _PC_PATH_MAX = 257
> 
> So this is really bad.

Thanks for reporting. It seems not good because postgreSQL assumes that _PC_PATH_MAX
is minimal 1024 for all platforms. If this values is correct then user on cygwin can have a
trouble. Please, could you test postgres with a long PATH?
    thanks Zdenek

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