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

Tom Lane wrote:
> Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> writes:
> > When talking of near-current systems with 64 bit off_t you are not
> > going to find one without support for 64 bit integral types.
> 
> I tend to agree with Giles on this point.  A non-integral representation
> of off_t is theoretically possible but I don't believe it exists in
> practice.  Before going far out of our way to allow it, we should first
> require some evidence that it's needed on a supported or
> likely-to-be-supported platform.
> 
> time_t isn't guaranteed to be an integral type either if you read the
> oldest docs about it ... but no one believes that in practice ...

I think fpos_t is the non-integral one.  I thought off_t almost always
was integral.

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