
> Sanity Check: does fseek work on tapes? If not, what is the 
> correct way to
> read a particular block/byte from a file on a tape?

This is usually not possible, meaning that to read backwards you have to
rewind 
to the beginning of tape, then seek to your position. Same is usually true
if you 
use a pipe to a storage manager.

Andreas

Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:56:30 +0200
Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: Proposal: More flexible backup/restore via pg_dump