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

At 11:06 AM 2/10/2002 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>It needs to get done; AFAIK no one has stepped up to do it.  Do you want
>to?

I'll have a look; my main concern at the moment is that off_t and size_t 
are totally non-committal as to structure; in particular I can probably 
safely assume that they are unsigned, but can I assume that they have the 
same endian--ness as int etc?

If so, then will it be valid to just read/write each byte in endian order? 
How likely is it that the 64 bit value will actually be implemented as a 
structure like:

off_t { int lo; int hi; }

which effectively ignores endian-ness at the 32 bit scale?



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