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Re: Large file support?



On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:02:48PM +0200, 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.

This does not solve the issue, LFS requires 2.4 or a patched 2.2
Kernel.
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html
            cu andreas



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