Re: Progress reporting for pg_verify_checksums - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2019-Feb-17, Michael Banck wrote:

> +    /*
> +     * As progress status information may be requested, we need to scan the
> +     * directory tree(s) twice, once to get the idea how much data we need to
> +     * scan and finally to do the real legwork.
> +     */
> +    total_size = scan_directory(DataDir, "global", true);
> +    total_size += scan_directory(DataDir, "base", true);
> +    total_size += scan_directory(DataDir, "pg_tblspc", true);

Surely we know at that point whether this first scan is needed, and we
can skip it if not?

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