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?

My limited reading of off_t stuff now suggests that it would be brave to 
assume it is even a simple 64 bit number (or even 3 32 bit numbers). One 
alternative, which I am not terribly fond of, is to have pg_dump write 
multiple files - when we get to 1 or 2GB, we just open another file, and 
record our file positions as a (file number, file position) pair. Low tech, 
but at least we know it would work.

Unless anyone knows of a documented way to get 64 bit uint/int file 
offsets, I don't see we have mush choice.


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