Re: Logging temp file useage ... a little advice

Perhaps the file is not open at the time you are doing the fstat().
Also, context diffs (diff -c) are clearer for us.

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Bill Moran wrote:
>
> So I've got this patch (attached, against 8.2)
>
> The goal is to track temp file usage as an aid to server tuning (such as
> work_mem)
>
> Most of the patch seems to work just dandy, except I'm getting weird
> sizes reported:
>
> 2006-12-29 17:46:21 EST [45558]: [575-1] LOG: temp file: size 140737488343776 path base/32861/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp45558.554
>
> Seems a bit odd to have a 140T file on a 130G partition ...
>
> I'm working on a FreeBSD 6.2 amd64 system. The headers show stat.st_size to
> be of type off_t, which appears to be a 64-bit int. I figured that %ld
> would be the correct format.
>
> Am I hitting something such as file sparseness? Is this entire endeavour
> doomed from the start? Or am I just making some sort of dumb mistake?
>
> Any pointers are welcome.
>
> --
> Bill Moran
> Collaborative Fusion Inc.

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