Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ITAGAKI Takahiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > We probably need to add PG_BINARY when we open control files
> > because 0x1A is an end-of-file marker on Windows.
> 
> Well, why is that a bug?  If the platform is so silly as to define text
> files that way, who are we to argue?

Google says it is for for backward compatibility with CP/M
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-file
and adding O_BINARY is the answer.
    
http://codenewbie.com/forum/standard-c-c/1208-binary-i-o-file-reading-0x1a-trouble.html

Regards,
---
ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center



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