Re: Why is it OK for dbsize.c to look at relation files directly? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 04:09:56PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> I think we should change dbsize.c to call
> RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork() for relkinds != TABLE/TOAST/MATVIEW,
> and a new AM callback for those. Probably with the aforementioned
> additional logic of closing smgr references if they weren't open before
> the size computation.
>
> Imo this pretty clearly is v13 work.

Agreed that this is out of 12's scope.  Perhaps you should add a TODO
item for that?
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Michael