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Re: [HACKERS] tables >2GB

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@hamartun.priv.no>

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From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: darrenk@insightdist.com (Darren King), pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-20T16:40:01Z
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* Bruce Momjian
|
| Well, BSD/OS goes over 2gig, but the postgreSQL code uses lseek, which
| returns long, so even though I can handle larger files, the lseek()
| can't because long is 32-bits.

Are you sure?  In NetBSD, lseek() is declared to return an off_t,
which again is defined to be a 64bit quantity.  I would assume that
BSD/OS did it the same way -- in fact, I'd be surprised if not.

-tih
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