g to the blog entry it's used for "the query planner".
Does the query planner need to know the exact number of bytes in the file,
or is it after an order-of-magnitude? Or to-the-nearest-gigabyte?
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et the current
size of a file before; I'd assumed everybody used fstat. Given this
legitimate reason for a high-frequency calling of lseek, I withdraw my
earlier objection to the patch series.
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Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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