Fix possible recovery trouble if TRUNCATE overlaps a checkpoint.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: 3821d66a7b3e913d750a3314fd8a560d374af575
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-03-24T18:38:51Z
Releases: 12.11
Fix possible recovery trouble if TRUNCATE overlaps a checkpoint.

If TRUNCATE causes some buffers to be invalidated and thus the
checkpoint does not flush them, TRUNCATE must also ensure that the
corresponding files are truncated on disk. Otherwise, a replay
from the checkpoint might find that the buffers exist but have
the wrong contents, which may cause replay to fail.

Report by Teja Mupparti. Patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi, per a design
suggestion from Heikki Linnakangas, with some changes to the
comments by me. Review of this and a prior patch that approached
the issue differently by Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund, Álvaro
Herrera, Masahiko Sawada, and Tom Lane.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/BYAPR06MB6373BF50B469CA393C614257ABF00@BYAPR06MB6373.namprd06.prod.outlook.com

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