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From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: pgsql: Fix our Windows stat() emulation to handle file sizes > 4GB.
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In response to Re: pgsql: Fix our Windows stat() emulation to handle file sizes > 4GB.  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
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On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 11:20 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 9, 2024 at 9:30 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> My impression was that this was something we just didn't get around to. I wouldn't have pushed these so close to release if this hadn't been code already tested for a long time in release 16+. Maybe we missed something, but I doubt it.

c5cb8f3b did have a couple more follow-ups: 4517358e and f71007fb.
These fixed initdb when run under a junction point:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4590c37927d7b8ee84f9855d83229018%40postgrespro.ru


Oh, ouch. I guess it's too late to add those for this release. Still, an initdb failure is not as bad as a pg_rewind failure, IMNSHO.

cheers

andrew

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