On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 5:46 AM Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.cha...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > So, do you mean we should just do fread() and fwrite() for the whole file? > > I thought it is better if it was done by the OS itself instead of reading 1GB > into the memory and writing the same to the file.
Well, 'cp' is just a C program. If they can write code to copy a file, so can we, and then we're not dependent on 'cp' being installed, working properly, being in the user's path or at the hard-coded pathname we expect, etc. There's an existing copy_file() function in src/backed/storage/file/copydir.c which I'd probably look into adapting for frontend use. I'm not sure whether it would be important to adapt the data-flushing code that's present in that routine or whether we could get by with just the loop to read() and write() data. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
