Re: [HACKERS] Patch to log usage of temporary files

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com> writes:
> > In response to Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> >> and then zero
> >> can be the "off" position, and we need not worry about whether -1 is
> >> -1 byte or -1 kbyte.
>
> > All doing this does is make it impossible to log temp files of 1 byte.
>
> How you figure that? It would make it impossible to log files of *zero*
> bytes, if anyone cared about that, but not 1 byte. 1 byte > 0 kbyte.

Uh, if you supply just a number with no units, is that bytes or
kilobytes? Do you have to say "0B".

Even if we could get that to work, I don't think it is worth the
inconsistency with the other GUC entries to do it. The units are
mentioned in the comments in postgresql.conf.

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