Re: Large file support available - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Large file support available
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0208271855110.1221-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Large file support available  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Large file support available  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> My point is that it seems fsetpos is the approved way of accessing large
> files, rather than fseeko.  In fact, I don't have fseeko here but I do
> have fsetpos, and it does handle large files because my includes have
> this:
>
>     typedef off_t fpos_t
>     typedef quad_t off_t;

Interesting.  In general, you can't rely on fpos_t being an integral type,
which indeed on my machine it isn't.  But for pg_dump we need an integral
type because we do offset arithmetic.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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