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From: Zubkovsky, Sergey <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[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: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:44:16 +0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


Can anybody tell me how filesystem space is allocated and point me to
the sources if it's possible?
I have some experience with programming for Windows and I'll try to
investigate this problem.


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:56 PM
To: Alvaro Herrera
Cc: Tom Lane; Gregory Stark; Zubkovsky, Sergey;
[email protected]; Magnus Hagander
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [DOCS] pg_total_relation_size() and CHECKPOINT



Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>   
>> The real question here is whether Windows' stat() is telling the
truth
>> about how much filesystem space has actually been allocated to a
file.
>> It seems entirely possible that it's not; but if it is, then I think
we
>> have a problem.
>>     
>
> Has this been examined by a Windows hacker?
>
>   

If someone can suggest a test program I'll be happy to run it.

cheers

andrew

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