> What I was vaguely imagining is that win32_port.h could #include > whichever Windows header defines these functions and structs, and > then do > > #define stat __stat64 > > static inline ... __stat64(...) { return _stat64(...); } > > What would need testing is whether the #define has nasty side-effects > even if we've already included the system header. I don't think it'd > hurt, eg, local variables named "stat"; though people might be surprised > when examining things in a debugger.
Did anybody test this idea? It seems we let this problem slip unfixed, which means Windows users cannot use pg_dump -Fd (incl. parallel dump) when output files are large.
This issue gets reported from time to time as bug, it also affects COPY. There is an open item for so:
