Albe Laurenz wrote: > Siddharth Shah wrote: >>>> I am compiling postgres, I have some doubts on ./configure options >>>> >>>> --disable-largefile >>>> Does it refers to for storing blob objects to store or >>>> anything else ? >>> I couldn't find this configure switch in the documentation for >>> 8.3 or 8.4. Can you explain where you found it and which version >>> you are using? >> I am using 8.3.5 and I have found these options in configure help >> ./configure --help > > I see. It seems to be missing in the documentation. > > This has nothing to do with large objects. > This disables use of the "large file API" for operating system files. > If you disable this, you will probably not be able to use operating system > files that exceed 2GB in size, which PostgreSQL normally does not do > anyway.
pg_dump/pg_restore deals with files >2GB, so you will have backup related issues if you disable it. > My recommendation is to leave this switch alone and use the default; > you should not encounter any problems. Agreed - the cost for supporting it is zero, AFAIK, so there is no reason to turn it off unless the OS has a buggy implementation. //Magnus -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
