On 2020-Sep-14, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 6:37 PM Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > > It would be awkward if we just used nBlocksWritten within > > LogicalTapeSetBlocks() in the case where we didn't preallocate (or in > > all cases). Not entirely sure what to do about that just yet. > > I guess that that's the logical thing to do, as in the attached patch.
I don't understand this patch. Or maybe I should say I don't understand the code you're patching. Why isn't the correct answer *always* nBlocksWritten? The comment in LogicalTapeSet says: "nBlocksWritten is the size of the underlying file, in BLCKSZ blocks." so if LogicalTapeSetBlocks wants to do what its comment says, that is, "Obtain total disk space currently used by a LogicalTapeSet, in blocks." then it seems like they're an exact match. Either that, or more than zero of those comments are lying. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services