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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
