Re: Large file support?
Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> The question has been raised of large file support in PostgreSQL. This
> would be especially useful for pg_dump, which on a very large database
> could easily write a file larger than 2Gb.
>
> I've checked the glibc and kernel docs, but I cannot be sure from those
> whether it is safe to turn on large file support for the binary
> packages. Will it work with any kernel? or will it break when run with
> an older kernel?
This is pretty much a non-issue since libc6 has recently dropped
support for 2.0 kernels anyway.
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