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

At 12:00 PM 22/10/2002 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>It does have the advantage of being more portable on systems
>that do have integral off_t

I suspect it is no more portable than determining storage order by using 
'int i = 256', then writing in storage order, and has the disadvantage that 
it may break as discussed.

AFAICT, using storage order will not break under any circumstances within 
one OS/architecture (unlike using shift), and will not break any more often 
than using shift in cases where off_t is integral.


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