| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Andreas Zeugswetter <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items |
| Date: | 1999-06-07 14:30:15 |
| Message-ID: | 199906071430.KAA05077@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Nothing is wrong with it. I just thought it would be more reliable to
> > unlink it, but now am considering I was wrong.
>
> Just a thought, but if you left it zero length, the dba could use it as a
> means for estimating disk space requirements? :) buff.0 buff.1 is zero
> lenght, but buff.2 isn't, we know that we've filled 2x1gig buffers plus a
> little bit, so can allocate space accordingly? :)
>
> I'm groping here, help me out ... :)
>
One reason to do truncate is that if it is a symbolic link to another
driver, that link will stay, while unlink will not, and will recreate on
on the same drive.
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