pgsql: Tolerate EINVAL when calling fsync() on a directory.

From: Thomas Munro <tmunro(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Tolerate EINVAL when calling fsync() on a directory.
Date: 2019-02-24 11:06:29
Message-ID: E1gxrc5-00029d-0y@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Tolerate EINVAL when calling fsync() on a directory.

Previously, we tolerated EBADF as a way for the operating system to
indicate that it doesn't support fsync() on a directory. Tolerate
EINVAL too, for older versions of Linux CIFS.

Bug #15636. Back-patch all the way.

Reported-by: John Klann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15636-d380890dafd78fc6@postgresql.org

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f16735d80d2fbe1c86f4ac044ee66fe2073b8877

Modified Files
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src/backend/storage/file/fd.c | 2 +-
src/common/file_utils.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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