> On 7 Apr 2024, at 14:51, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> On 2024-04-06 Sa 20:49, Andres Freund wrote:
>> That's probably unnecessary optimization, but it seems a tad silly to read an
>> entire, potentially sizable, file to just use the last 1k. Not sure if the way
>> slurp_file() uses seek supports negative ofsets, the docs read to me like that
>> may only be supported with SEEK_END.
>
> We should enhance slurp_file() so it uses SEEK_END if the offset is negative.
Absolutely agree. Reading the thread I think Andres argues for not printing
anything at all in this case but we should support negative offsets anyways, it
will fort sure come in handy.
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Daniel Gustafsson