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Add a tip for people who are using database-related ports on a sparc64

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system that they intend to upgrade to 64-bit time_t.

Noticed by:	Roderick van Domburg
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Garance A Drosehn 2004-03-17 01:59:47 +00:00
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@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ Step Pre-4: For sparc64 machines which need DHCP:
that port and make sure you can get it working *before* you
make the change to use 64-bit time_t's.
Step Pre-4: For people using database-related ports:
Ports like PostgreSQL may change how they store data after
they are recompiled for 64-bTT. So, you may have to do a
full dump of your data while you still have a 32-bTT system,
and do a matching initdb/restore of your data after the port
has been recompiled on the upgraded 64-bTT system.
After you have built and installed that src-snapshot with 32-bit time_t's,
edit the file /usr/src/sys/sparc64/include/_types.h
find the line: