Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:21:07AM -0500, Greg Copeland wrote:
>
>>I'm actually amazed that postgres isn't already using large file
>>support. Especially for tools like dump.
>>
>
>Except it would only cause confusion if you ran such a program on a
>system that didn't itself have largefile support. Better to make the
>admin turn all these things on on purpose, until everyone is running
>64 bit systems everywhere.
>
>A
>
Ah yes ... extremely good point - I had not considered that.
I am pretty sure all reasonably current (kernel >= 2.4) Linux distros
support largefile out of the box - so it should be safe for them.
Other operating systems where 64 bit file access can be disabled or
unconfigured require more care - possibly (sigh) 2 binary RPMS with a
distinctive 32 and 64 bit label ...(I think the "big O" does this for
Solaris).
Cheers
Mark