From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: shangzi.x@columbia.edu
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: relpages in pg_class
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 12:39:55 -0400
Message-ID: <3203690.1660927195@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220819160133.l2m47puqpjzk3mrh@alvherre.pgsql>
References: <20220819160133.l2m47puqpjzk3mrh@alvherre.pgsql>
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2022-Aug-19, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Well, blocks and pages are the same size, so I don't see the problem.
> If you think about operating system "blocks" rather than Postgres
> "blocks", I can see how this can be interpreted differently. I'm not
> sure if this is a good place to make that distinction, though; I mean,
> if we do, how many other places should we patch similarly?
Yeah, we use "blocks" and "pages" interchangeably, which is something
I don't feel a need to change; but evidently the OP didn't realize that.
This is a job for the glossary, perhaps?
regards, tom lane
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