Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ick.
> The reason not to do so was to avoid having to do the two filesystem
> calls for *every* stat, instead just calling them both when we actually
> need to use the st_size member.
I don't think that's worth (a) the code uglification, or (b) the chance
of a bug later due to someone not knowing they need the special version
of stat(). Are there any stat() calls that are in sufficiently
performance-critical paths that it really matters? How much slower is
the second call, anyway?
regards, tom lane