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

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2002-10-24T03:11:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
OK, NetBSD added.  

Any other OS's need this?  Is it safe for me to code something that
assumes fpos_t and off_t are identical?  I can't think of a good way to
test if two data types are identical.  I don't think sizeof is enough.

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Giles Lean wrote:
> 
> > OK, does pre-1.6 NetBSD have fgetpos/fsetpos that is off_t/quad?
> 
> Yes:
> 
>     int
>     fgetpos(FILE *stream, fpos_t *pos);
> 
>     int
>     fsetpos(FILE *stream, const fpos_t *pos);
> 
> Per comments in <stdio.h> fpos_t is the same format as off_t, and
> off_t and fpos_t have been 64 bit since 1994.
> 
>     http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/include/stdio.h
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Giles
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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