Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.5 items

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > > What is it on the backend that causes some backend to think there is
> > > another segment.  Does it just go off the end of the max segment size
> > > and try to open another, or do we store the number of segments
> > > somewhere. I thought it was the former in sgml() area.  I honestly don't
> > > care if the segment files stay around if that is going to be a reliable
> > > solution.
> > 
> > Other then the inode being used, what is wrong with a zero-length segment
> > file?
> 
> Nothing is wrong with it.  I just thought it would be more reliable to
> unlink it, but now am considering I was wrong.

Just a thought, but if you left it zero length, the dba could use it as a
means for estimating disk space requirements? :)  buff.0 buff.1 is zero
lenght, but buff.2 isn't, we know that we've filled 2x1gig buffers plus a
little bit, so can allocate space accordingly? :)

I'm groping here, help me out ... :)

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