FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 15:35, Thompson, Bill D (London) wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> That's not a freebcp message , as far as I know.
> There is a file size limit on your operating system, probably.
> I have run into the same problem with Sybase "bcp" in Solaris. 

Actually it's a bit of both. I think you need to use special calls or
flags to handle >2GB files.

Checking the open(2) man page on linux I see the O_LARGEFILE flag, for
example.

Michael


> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Thomas A. Lowery
> Sent: 28 October 2004 14:29
> To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [freetds] Freebcp 2GB file limit
> 
> 
> When using freebcp to extract a large table, I'm receiving a 
> "exceeds file size limit".  It looks like a 2GB boundary.
> I've worked around the problem by using a named pipe, but I wonder
> if there a build configure parameter to handle >2GB?
> 
> freebcp version $Id: freebcp.c,v 1.17 2003/01/26 10:27:35 freddy77 Exp $
> 
> Tom
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