Re: pg_restore [archiver] file offset in dump file is too

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> There is no fseeko in the Windows libraries, nor any provision in the
> mingw headers that I can see for a 64 bit off_t. So we would need to
> roll our own to some extent - I think we need more than just a bit of
> configure cleverness.

> However, there is a Windows library routine to do a 64bit seek and
> return the file position, so we could fairly easily implement fseeko and
> ftello based on that. See
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__lseek.2c_._lseeki64.asp

Is there any risk that the mingw libraries would fail when manipulating
a file whose current offset exceeds 32 bits? I'm wondering if we'd have
to roll our own stdio in toto, not just fseeko/ftello :-(

regards, tom lane