Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Until recently, pg_relation_size used SearchSysCache to locate the > relation to examine, and calculated the file location from that > information. Starting with dbsize.c V1.5 (committed after Beta2), > relation_open(.., AccessShareLock) is used. This is very unfortunate > because it will not allow to observe a table growing while it is > populated, e.g. with a lengthy COPY; pg_relation_size will be blocked.
Nonsense. > After reverting to 1.4, everything was fine again. > Can we have this reverted/fixed? Can we have the actual problem explained? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org