Re: [PING] fallocate() causes btrfs to never compress postgresql files
Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>
From: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>,
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>, Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>,
pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>,
Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>,
Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>,
David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-10-28T15:31:16Z
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Add file_extend_method=posix_fallocate,write_zeros.
- e37b59802846 16.12 landed
- 4dac22aa10d2 17.8 landed
- f94e9141a0bb 19 (unreleased) landed
- 33e3de6d77e8 18.2 landed
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Add smgrzeroextend(), FileZero(), FileFallocate()
- 4d330a61bb19 16.0 cited
Sorry to ping again, but was there a conclusion reached regarding adding the new file_extend_method setting?