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

At 09:59 AM 1/10/2002 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>If there is a problem, seems like we'd better fix it.  Perhaps there
>needs to be something in the header to tell the reader the sizeof
>off_t.

Yes, and do the peripheral stuff to support old archives etc. We also need 
to be careful about the places where we do file-position-arithmetic - if 
there are any, I can't recall.

I am not sure we need to worry about whether zlib supports large files 
since I am pretty sure we don't use zlib for file IO - we just pass it 
in-memory blocks; so it should work no matter how much data is in the stream.


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