>My limited reading of off_t stuff now suggests that it would be brave to 
>assume it is even a simple 64 bit number (or even 3 32 bit numbers). One 
>alternative, which I am not terribly fond of, is to have pg_dump write 
>multiple files - when we get to 1 or 2GB, we just open another file, and 
>record our file positions as a (file number, file position) pair. Low tech, 
>but at least we know it would work.
>
>Unless anyone knows of a documented way to get 64 bit uint/int file 
>offsets, I don't see we have mush choice.

How common is fgetpos64? Linux supports it, but I don't know about other
systems.

http://hpc.uky.edu/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=all&topic=fgetpos64

Regards,
	Mario Weilguni

Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:18:44 +0200
"Mario Weilguni" <mario.weilguni@icomedias.com>
Re: pg_dump and large files - is this a problem? 