Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)slingshot(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS
Date: 2002-08-10 05:13:23
Message-ID: 3D54A0F3.8030801@slingshot.co.nz
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Lamar Owen wrote:

>
>And you added this by doing what, exactly? I'm not familiar with pg_dump
>largefile support as a standalone feature.
>

Enabling largefile support for the utilities was accomplished by :

CFLAGS="-O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" ./configure ...

It seemed to me that the ability to dump databases >2G without gzip,
split etc was a "good thing". What do you think ?

>
>
>You have this wrong. The distributions do periodically sync up with my
>revision, and I with theirs, but they do their own packaging.
>
I see.... so if you enabled such support, they they would probably sync
that too ?

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