Re: Large file support available

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > My point is that it seems fsetpos is the approved way of accessing large
> > files, rather than fseeko. In fact, I don't have fseeko here but I do
> > have fsetpos, and it does handle large files because my includes have
> > this:
> >
> > typedef off_t fpos_t
> > typedef quad_t off_t;
>
> Interesting. In general, you can't rely on fpos_t being an integral type,
> which indeed on my machine it isn't. But for pg_dump we need an integral
> type because we do offset arithmetic.

Oh, is that why fsetpos is always SEEK_SET and not SET_CURR or offset
stuff. Strange I don't have fseeko and do have large file support.
BSD/OS has had it for years. I guess they just do off_t arithmetic, but
that isn't portable.

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