Commit 0dd19ad2 authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

Add info about how to enable large-file support, so that pg_dump won't

choke at 2Gb of output.  From Andrew Sullivan.
parent 74c8c093
......@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL 7.2
Sun Solaris specific
to be read in conjunction with the installation instructions
============================================================
last updated: $Date: 2001/12/10 13:02:20 $
last updated: $Date: 2002/01/18 20:56:17 $
current maintainer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
......@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Contents:
1) What tools do I need to build and install PostgreSQL on Solaris?
2) Why do I get problems when building with OpenSSL support?
3) Why does configure complain about a failed test program?
4) How do I ensure that pg_dump and pg_restore can handle files > 2 Gb?
1) What tools do I need to build and install PostgreSQL on Solaris?
......@@ -64,3 +65,14 @@ whenever you run any of the installed PostgreSQL programs.
Alternatively, set the environment variable LD_RUN_PATH. See the
ld(1) man page for more information.
4) How do I ensure that pg_dump and pg_restore can handle files > 2 Gb?
By default, gcc will build programs that only handle 32-bit file offsets.
This is not a real problem for the server but can easily be trouble for
pg_dump and pg_restore. Before running 'configure', set your CFLAGS variable
to specify support for files with 64-bit offsets. This has been verified
to work on Solaris 7:
CFLAGS="`getconf LFS_CFLAGS`"; export CFLAGS
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