>My limited reading of off_t stuff now suggests that it would be brave to
>assume it is even a simple 64 bit number (or even 3 32 bit numbers). One
>alternative, which I am not terribly fond of, is to have pg_dump write
>multiple files - when we get to 1 or 2GB, we just open another file, and
>record our file positions as a (file number, file position) pair. Low tech,
>but at least we know it would work.
>
>Unless anyone knows of a documented way to get 64 bit uint/int file
>offsets, I don't see we have mush choice.
How common is fgetpos64? Linux supports it, but I don't know about other
systems.
http://hpc.uky.edu/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=all&topic=fgetpos64
Regards,Mario Weilguni
