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Re: Large file support?



On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 12:02, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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.

So is it OK with 2.2.x?

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