| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_restore [archiver] file offset in dump file is too |
| Date: | 2005-12-04 18:58:07 |
| Message-ID: | 43933C3F.1080000@dunslane.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>> While Win32 supports 64-bit files, the MinGW API does not,
>> meaning we have to build an fseeko replacement on top of the
>> Win32 API, and we have to make sure MinGW handles it.
>>
>>
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>Wouldn't it be better to lobby the MinGW folk to fix their problem?
>Or even help them with it? I can't see the rationale for implementing
>a workaround that helps only us.
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There is a library available from the gnuwin32 project that advertises
fseeko and fseeko64. So we probably have a choice of requiring this
library or doing it ourselves.
see http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libgw32c.htm
cheers
andrew
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