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

At 09:50 PM 20/10/2002 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>Well, I think Tom was going to try it on his HPUX machine.

It might be good if someone who knows a little more than me about
endianness etc has a look at the patch - specifically this bit of code:

#if __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN        for (off = 0 ; off < sizeof(off_t) ; off++) {
#else        for (off = sizeof(off_t) -1 ; off >= 0 ; off--) {
#endif            i = *(char*)(ptr+off);            (*AH->WriteBytePtr) (AH, i);        }

It is *intended* to write the data such that the least significant byte
is written first to the file, but the dump Giles put on his FTP site
is not correct - it's written msb->lsb.

There seem to be two possibilities (a) I am an idiot and there is something
wrong with the code above that I can not see, or (b) the test:
    #if __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN

is not the right thing to do. Any insights would be appreciated.



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