On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 12:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:04:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > On a system where building with large-file support is reasonably > > standard, I agree that PG should be built that way too. Where it's > > not so standard, I agree with Andrew Sullivan's concerns ... > > What do you mean by "standard"? That only some filesystems are supported? > In Linux the vfat filesystem doesn't support largefiles, so the behaviour > is the same as if the application didn't specify O_LARGEFILE to open(2): > As Helge Bahmann pointed out, "kernel will refuse to write files larger than > 2GB". In current Linux, a signal (SIGXFSZ) is sent to the application > that then dumps core. > > > So, the use of O_LARGEFILE is nullified by the lack of support by the > filesystem, but no problem is introduced by the application supporting > largefiles, it already existed before. >
Thank you. That's a point that I previously pointed out...you just did a much better job of it. Specifically, want to stress that enabling large file support is not dangerous. Greg
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