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Old 04-15-2008, 11:47 PM
Zdenek Kotala
 
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Default Re: How large file is really large - pathconf results

Reini Urban napsal(a):
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> cygwin 1.5 on NTFS. But 1.7 will a have much larger _PC_PATH_MAX.
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> _PC_FILESIZEBITS undefined _PC_LINK_MAX = 8 _PC_NAME_MAX = 260 _PC_PATH_MAX = 257
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> So this is really bad.


Thanks for reporting. It seems not good because postgreSQL assumes that _PC_PATH_MAX
is minimal 1024 for all platforms. If this values is correct then user on cygwin can have a
trouble. Please, could you test postgres with a long PATH?


thanks Zdenek

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