Adjust WAL code so that checkpoints truncate the xlog at the previous

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 1173344e74f7b0eccb9bf3ad2307c82e12cb4fd8
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2001-06-06T17:07:46Z
Releases: 7.2.1
Adjust WAL code so that checkpoints truncate the xlog at the previous
checkpoint's redo pointer, not its undo pointer, per discussion in
pghackers a few days ago.  No point in hanging onto undo information
until we have the ability to do something with it --- and this solves
a rather large problem with log space for long-running transactions.
Also, change all calls of write() to detect the case where write
returned a count less than requested, but failed to set errno.
Presume that this situation indicates ENOSPC, and give the appropriate
error message, rather than a random message associated with the previous
value of errno.

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