| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, shangzi(dot)x(at)columbia(dot)edu, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: relpages in pg_class |
| Date: | 2022-08-19 16:39:55 |
| Message-ID: | 3203690.1660927195@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> On 2022-Aug-19, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Well, blocks and pages are the same size, so I don't see the problem.
> If you think about operating system "blocks" rather than Postgres
> "blocks", I can see how this can be interpreted differently. I'm not
> sure if this is a good place to make that distinction, though; I mean,
> if we do, how many other places should we patch similarly?
Yeah, we use "blocks" and "pages" interchangeably, which is something
I don't feel a need to change; but evidently the OP didn't realize that.
This is a job for the glossary, perhaps?
regards, tom lane
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