Re: Use pg_pwritev_with_retry() instead of write() in dir_open_for_write() to avoid partial writes?

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-02-13T04:08:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 09:31:36AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> Another thing: I think we should either avoid iterating over all the IOVs if
> we don't need them, or, even better, initialize the array as a constant, once.

Where you imply that we'd still use memset() once on iov[PG_IOV_MAX],
right?
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Revise pg_pwrite_zeros()

  2. Use pg_pwrite_zeros() in walmethods.c

  3. Introduce pg_pwrite_zeros() in fileutils.c

  4. Move pg_pwritev_with_retry() to src/common/file_utils.c

  5. Restore pg_pread and friends.

  6. Remove dead pread and pwrite replacement code.