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

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Giles Lean <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem?
Date: 2002-10-23 04:36:06
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.0.20021023143531.0281b498@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 12:32 AM 23/10/2002 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>I am wondering why pg_dump has to depend on either fseek or ftell.

It doesn't - it just works better and has more features if they are
available, much like zlib etc.

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