Re: should frontend tools use syncfs() ?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
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: 2023-08-22 01:50:01
Message-ID: ZOQUSbi8bD1nhxb4@paquier.xyz
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 06:44:07PM -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> I'm hoping there's a simpler path forward here. pg_rewind only needs the
> following lines from fd.h:
>
> /* Filename components */
> #define PG_TEMP_FILES_DIR "pgsql_tmp"
> #define PG_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX "pgsql_tmp"
>
> Maybe we could move these to file_utils.h instead. WDYT?

I guess so.. At the same time, something can be said about
pg_checksums that redeclares PG_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX and PG_TEMP_FILES_DIR
because it does not want to include fd.h and its sync routines.
--
Michael

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