On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:49:21AM +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 10:36 AM Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote:
>> OK, but I need more information on how users will see a difference based
>> on this commit:

+1.  That would be good to have in the release notes.

> I think that since with this commit the server on Windows can handle a
> file over 4GB, COPY FROM loading data from an over 4GB file and
> pg_dump dumping a large table work now.

Segment files or WAL files larger than 4GB also gain from that.
Anything for which we may finish to do a stat() on benefits from this
change if running on Windows.  For pg_dump, a workaround in PG <= 13
was to use --no-sync as the stat() failure came from files with a size
larger than 4GB.  That's rather sad as that means sacrifying
durability for more usability :(
--
Michael

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