Re: pgsql: Remove the restriction that the relmap must be 512 bytes.

On 2022-Jul-26, Robert Haas wrote:

> Remove the restriction that the relmap must be 512 bytes.
> 
> Instead of relying on the ability to atomically overwrite the
> entire relmap file in one shot, write a new one and durably
> rename it into place. Removing the struct padding and the
> calculation showing why the map is exactly 512 bytes, and change
> the maximum number of entries to a nearby round number.

Another thing that seems to have happened here is that catversion ought
to have been touched and wasn't.  Trying to start a cluster that was
initdb'd with the previous code enters an infinite loop that dies each
time with

2022-07-27 19:17:27.589 CEST [2516547] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
2022-07-27 19:17:27.589 CEST [2516730] FATAL:  could not read file "global/pg_filenode.map": read 512 of 524
2022-07-27 19:17:27.589 CEST [2516731] FATAL:  could not read file "global/pg_filenode.map": read 512 of 524
2022-07-27 19:17:27.589 CEST [2516547] LOG:  autovacuum launcher process (PID 2516730) exited with exit code 1
2022-07-27 19:17:27.589 CEST [2516547] LOG:  terminating any other active server processes

Perhaps we should still do a catversion bump now, since one hasn't
happened since the commit.

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