Support direct I/O on macOS.

Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>

Commit: 2dbe8905711ba09a2214b6e835f8f0c2c4981cb3
Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-07-18T23:01:01Z
Releases: 15.0
Support direct I/O on macOS.

Macs don't understand O_DIRECT, but they can disable caching with a
separate fcntl() call.  Extend the file opening functions in fd.c to
handle this for us if the caller passes in PG_O_DIRECT.

For now, this affects only WAL data and even then only if you set:

  max_wal_senders=0
  wal_level=minimal

This is not expected to be very useful on its own, but later proposed
patches will make greater use of direct I/O, and it'll be useful for
testing if developers on Macs can see the effects.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BADiyyHe0cun2wfT%2BSVnFVqNYPxoO6J9zcZkVO7%2BNGig%40mail.gmail.com

Files

PathChange+/−
src/backend/storage/file/fd.c modified +36 −0
src/bin/pg_test_fsync/pg_test_fsync.c modified +31 −4
src/include/access/xlogdefs.h modified +0 −15
src/include/storage/fd.h modified +16 −0

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