Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 20:52, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 20:47, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 
> > > Here is a modified version of Philip's patch that has the changes Tom
> > > suggested;  treating off_t as an integral type.  I did light testing on
> > > my BSD/OS machine that has 8-byte off_t but I don't have 4 gigs of free
> > > space to test larger files.  
> > I can make an account for anyone that wants to play on UnixWare 7.1.3.
> 
> If you have 7.3, you can just test this way:
I haven't had the time to play with 7.3 (busy on a NUMBER of other
things). 

I'm more than willing to supply resources, just my time is short right
now. 


>     
>     1) apply the patch
>     2) run the regression tests
>     3) pg_dump -Fc regression >/tmp/x
>     4) pg_restore  -Fc  </tmp/x
> 
> That's all I did and it worked.
> 
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