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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Gregory Stark <[email protected]>
Cc: Zubkovsky,    Sergey <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOCS] pg_total_relation_size() and CHECKPOINT
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:33:41 +0100
Message-ID: <20080327083341.260e222e@mha-laptop> (raw)
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:13:42 -0400
Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
> > I suspect that the size reported by stat() is a little delayed
> > here, but the file system is keeping proper track of it, so the
> > lseek that tries to extend the file fails at the right spot.
> 
> Hmm.  If it really works that way, one would hope Microsoft would've
> documented that someplace.  Can anyone find a statement that Windows'
> stat() is not current?

I'm not in a position to test it myself now (doing training, and then
I'll be off to pg-east...), but it'd be interesting to see if it acts
the same way with GetFileSize(), or if it's just stat()...

/Magnus

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