On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 5:30 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2020-Feb-12, Thomas Munro wrote:
> > Hmm. Well, on Unix we have to choose between "tell me the size but
> > also change the position that I either don't care about or have to
> > undo", and "tell me the size but also tell me all this other stuff I
> > don't care about". Since Windows apparently has GetFileSizeEx(), why
> > not use that when that's exactly what you want? It apparently
> > understands large files.
>
> I was already thinking that it might be better to make the new function
> just "tell me the file size" without leaking the details of *how* we do
> it, before reading about this Windows call. That reinforces it, IMO.
Ok, how about this?