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

At 11:20 AM 1/10/2002 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>BSD/OS has 64-bit off_t's so it does support large files. Is there
>something I can test?

Not really since it saves only the first 32 bits of the 64 bit positions it
will do no worse than a version that supports 32 bits only. It might even
do slightly better. When this is sorted out, we need to verify that:

- large dump files are restorable

- dump files with 32 bit off_t restore properly on systems with 64 biy off_t

- dump files with 64 bit off_t restore properly on systems with 32 bit off_tAS
LONG AS the offsets are less than 32 bits.

- old dump files restore properly.

- new dump files have a new version number so that old pg_restore will not
try to restore them.

We probably need to add Read/WriteOffset to pg_backup_archiver.c to read
the appropriate sized value from a dump file, in the same way that
Read/WriteInt works now.

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