Tom Lane wrote:
> In the above example, the contrib code would have not done the right
> thing at all --- if I'm not mistaken, it would have kept handing back
> the size of the original, pre-TRUNCATE file, since the new pg_class
> row with the new relfilenode isn't committed yet. So it wouldn't have
> done what you wish anyway.
It wouldn't have worked anyway because it used the Oid to search the
file, not the relfilenode.
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