Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> A question though - is there any *gain* from using 64-bit offsets in the > >> actual backend? The change could of course be done in port.h, but that > > > No, not really. All files are kept < 1gig for the backend. > > Not so: consider a backend COPY reading or writing a multi-gig table. > This will fail if the platform hasn't got largefile support.
Good point --- but do we do any seeks in COPY files? I don't think so, so I don't see how we would benefit from large file support there. Certainly people are dumping >2 gig files. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
