On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 9:39 AM <gkokolatos@pm.me> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> this minor patch is attempting to force the use of the tableam api in dbsize where ever it is required.
>
> Apparently something similar was introduced for toast relations only. Intuitively it seems that the distinction
betweena table and a toast table is not needed.
I suspect the reason is found in the comment for table_block_relation_size():
* If a table AM uses the various relation forks as the sole place where data
* is stored, and if it uses them in the expected manner (e.g. the actual data
* is in the main fork rather than some other), it can use this implementation
* of the relation_size callback rather than implementing its own.
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