Re: should frontend tools use syncfs() ?

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Brown <michael(dot)brown(at)discourse(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: should frontend tools use syncfs() ?
Date: 2023-08-30 01:14:08
Message-ID: 20230830011408.GA2269049@nathanxps13
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 09:10:47AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I understand that I'm perhaps sounding pedantic about fsync_pgdata()..
> But, after thinking more about it, I would still make this code fail
> hard with an exit(EXIT_FAILURE) to let any C code calling directly
> this routine with sync_method = DATA_DIR_SYNC_METHOD_SYNCFS know that
> the build does not allow the use of this option when we don't have
> HAVE_SYNCFS. parse_sync_method() offers some protection, but adding
> this restriction also in the execution path is more friendly than
> falling back silently to the default of flushing each file if
> fsync_pgdata() is called with syncfs but the build does not support
> it. At least that's more predictible.

That seems fair enough. I did this in v7. I restructured fsync_pgdata()
and fsync_dir_recurse() so that any new sync methods should cause compiler
warnings until they are implemented.

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Nathan Bossart
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Attachment Content-Type Size
v7-0001-move-PG_TEMP_FILE-macros-to-file_utils.h.patch text/x-diff 4.1 KB
v7-0002-allow-syncfs-in-frontend-utilities.patch text/x-diff 42.0 KB

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