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

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>, Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2002-10-24T22:12:56Z
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> 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.

No, you can't assume that fpos_t and off_t are identical.

But you can simulate a long fseeko() by calling fseek() multiple times, so
it should be possible to write a replacement that works on all systems.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net