Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0210012023090.1149-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> Yes, it does --- the implication is that the custom format, at least,
> can't support dumps > 4Gb.  What exactly is pg_dump writing off_t's
> into files for; maybe there's not really a problem?

That's kind of what I was wondering, too.

Not that it's an excuse, but I think that large file access through zlib
won't work anyway.  Zlib uses the integer types in fairly random ways.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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