Add support for syncfs() in frontend support functions.

Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>

Commit: cccc6cdeb32f010f1cf777a9e9a85344a4317ab8
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-09-06T23:27:00Z
Releases: 17.0
Add support for syncfs() in frontend support functions.

This commit adds support for using syncfs() in fsync_pgdata() and
fsync_dir_recurse() (which have been renamed to sync_pgdata() and
sync_dir_recurse()).  Like recovery_init_sync_method,
sync_pgdata() calls syncfs() for the data directory, each
tablespace, and pg_wal (if it is a symlink).  For now, all of the
frontend utilities that use these support functions are hard-coded
to use fsync(), but a follow-up commit will allow specifying
syncfs().

Co-authored-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210930004340.GM831%40telsasoft.com

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