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

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Use pg_pwritev_with_retry() instead of write() in dir_open_for_write() to avoid partial writes?
Date: 2023-03-07 02:42:03
Message-ID: CA+hUKGK-FM0kpvAss+2s6=Fyj+w7d1LLB1mN6713v59uLjFE4w@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:30 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 01:54:00PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> > I ran some tests on my dev system [1] and I don't see much difference
> > between v3 and v4. So, +1 for v3 patch (+ argument order swap) from
> > Andres to keep the code simple and elegant.
>
> This thread has stalled for a couple of weeks, so I have gone back to
> it. Testing on a tmpfs I am not seeing a difference if performance
> for any of the approaches discussed. At the end, as I am the one
> behind the introduction of pg_pwrite_zeros(), I have applied v3 after
> switches the size and offset parameters to be the same way as in v4.

Apparently ye olde GCC 4.7 on "lapwing" doesn't like the way you
initialised that struct. I guess it wants {{0}} instead of {0}.
Apparently old GCC was wrong about that warning[1], but that system
doesn't have the back-patched fixes? Not sure.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63355760/how-standard-is-the-0-initializer-in-c89

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