PostgreSQL's Windows port has never been able to handle files larger than 2GB due to the use of off_t for file offsets, only 32-bit on Windows. This causes signed integer overflow at exactly 2^31 bytes when trying to handle files larger than 2GB, for the routines touched by this commit. Note that large files are forbidden by ./configure (3c6248a828) and meson (recent change, see79cd66f28c). This restriction also exists in v16 and older versions for the now-dead MSVC scripts. The code base already defines pgoff_t as __int64 (64-bit) on Windows for this purpose, and some function declarations in headers use it, but many internals still rely on off_t. This commit switches more routines to use pgoff_t, offering more portability, for areas mainly related to file extensions and storage. These are not critical for WAL segments yet, which have currently a maximum size allowed of 1GB (well, this opens the door at allowing a larger size for them). This matters more for segment files if we want to lift the large file restriction in ./configure and meson in the future, which would make sense to remove once/if all traces of off_t are gone from the tree. This can additionally matter for out-of-core code that may want files larger than 2GB in places where off_t is four bytes in size. Note that off_t is still used in other parts of the tree like buffile.c, WAL sender/receiver, base backup, pg_combinebackup, etc. These other code paths can be addressed separately, and their update will be required if we want to remove the large file restriction in the future. This commit is a good first cut in itself towards more portability, hopefully. On Unix-like systems, pgoff_t is defined as off_t, so this change only affects Windows behavior. Author: Bryan Green <dbryan.green@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0f238ff4-c442-42f5-adb8-01b762c94ca1@gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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