Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS

On Monday 12 August 2002 11:30 am, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> The problem is not just a system-level one, but a filesystem-level
> one.  Enabling 64 bits by default might be dangerous, because a DBA
> might think "oh, it supports largefiles by default" and therefore not
> notice that the filesystem itself is not mounted with largefile
> support.  But I suspect that the developers would welcome autoconfig
> patches if someone offered them.

Interesting point.  Before I could deploy RPMs with largefile support by
default, I would have to make sure it wouldn't silently break anything.  So
keep discussing the issues involved, and I'll see what comes of it.  I don't
have an direct experience with the largefile support, and am learning as I go
with this.

Given that I have to make the source RPM's buildable on distributions that
might not have the largefile support available, so on those distributions the
support will have to be unavailable -- and the decision to build it or not to
build it must be automatable.
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Lamar Owen
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