Re: 2GB limit for temp_file_limit on 32bit platform

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/19/2012 01:04 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>> I did a backport of temp_file_limit feature to 9.1, but when we tested
>> this patch, we found very restristrictive limit to 2GB.
>>
>> 2GB is nonsense, because this is session limit of temp files, and
>> these files should be longer than 2GB.
>
>
> I haven't read the patch but... don't all 32bit platforms have a 2GB limit
> (by default)?

I don't think so.

LFS got done in the mid-90s, which is long enough ago for people to
start forgetting about it.  Are there any supported platforms that
didn't adopt LFS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_file_support
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