Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> A question though - is there any *gain* from using 64-bit offsets in the
>> actual backend? The change could of course be done in port.h, but that

> No, not really. All files are kept < 1gig for the backend.

Not so: consider a backend COPY reading or writing a multi-gig table.
This will fail if the platform hasn't got largefile support.

regards, tom lane

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