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
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Add file_extend_method=posix_fallocate,write_zeros.

  2. Add smgrzeroextend(), FileZero(), FileFallocate()

Sorry to ping again, but was there a conclusion reached regarding adding the new file_extend_method setting?