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From: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Zubkovsky, Sergey <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Gregory Stark <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] pg_total_relation_size() and CHECKPOINT
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:54:02 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>



Zubkovsky, Sergey wrote:
> Maybe this helps:
>
> "It is not an error to set a file pointer to a position beyond the end
> of the file. The size of the file does not increase until you call the
> SetEndOfFile, WriteFile, or WriteFileEx function. A write operation
> increases the size of the file to the file pointer position plus the
> size of the buffer written, which results in the intervening bytes
> uninitialized."
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365541(VS.85).aspx
>
> According to Windows' lseek implementation (attached) SetEndOfFile()
> isn't called for this case.
>
>   
>

Yes, but we immediately follow the lseek bye a write(). See 
src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c:mdextend() .

cheers

andrew

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