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Re: should frontend tools use syncfs() ?

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Paul Guo <guopa@vmware.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Michael Brown <michael.brown@discourse.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-09-06T00:08:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
I've committed 0001 for now.  I plan to commit the rest in the next couple
of days.

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Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

Commits

  1. Adjust documentation for syncfs().

  2. Improve the naming in wal_sync_method code.

  3. Allow using syncfs() in frontend utilities.

  4. Add support for syncfs() in frontend support functions.

  5. Make enum for sync methods available to frontend code.

  6. Move PG_TEMP_FILE* macros to file_utils.h.

  7. Change client-side fsync_fname() to report errors fatally