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To: "Zubkovsky, Sergey" <Sergey.Zubkovsky@transas.com>
cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg_total_relation_size() and CHECKPOINT 
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:19:20 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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[ moved to -hackers --- see original thread here
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"Zubkovsky, Sergey" <Sergey.Zubkovsky@transas.com> writes:
> Here is my example.

Hmm ... on my Fedora machine I get the same result (704512) in
all these cases, which is what I'd expect.  (The exact value
could vary across platforms, of course.)

You said you were using the MinGW build --- maybe MinGW's version
of stat(2) isn't trustworthy?

			regards, tom lane