Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Not so: consider a backend COPY reading or writing a multi-gig table.
>
> > Good point --- but do we do any seeks in COPY files? I don't think so,
>
> True, so if the problem is limited to whether we can seek or not, then
> we don't need to fix the backend. Magnus said something about other
> issues though?

Yes, MinGW. I think he is researching that.

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