| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Zubkovsky, Sergey" <Sergey(dot)Zubkovsky(at)transas(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: [DOCS] pg_total_relation_size() and CHECKPOINT |
| Date: | 2008-03-26 15:41:32 |
| Message-ID: | 21662.1206546092@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> 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.
One thing that would be good is just to see who else can reproduce
the original observation:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2008-03/msg00041.php
It might occur only on some versions of Windows, for instance.
regards, tom lane
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