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Force default wal_sync_method to be fdatasync on Linux.
Recent versions of the Linux system header files cause xlogdefs.h to believe that open_datasync should be the default sync method, whereas formerly fdatasync was the default on Linux. open_datasync is a bad choice, first because it doesn't actually outperform fdatasync (in fact the reverse), and second because we try to use O_DIRECT with it, causing failures on certain filesystems (e.g., ext4 with data=journal option). This part of the patch is largely per a proposal from Marti Raudsepp. More extensive changes are likely to follow in HEAD, but this is as much change as we want to back-patch. Also clean up confusing code and incorrect documentation surrounding the fsync_writethrough option. Those changes shouldn't result in any actual behavioral change, but I chose to back-patch them anyway to keep the branches looking similar in this area. In 9.0 and HEAD, also do some copy-editing on the WAL Reliability documentation section. Back-patch to all supported branches, since any of them might get used on modern Linux versions.
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- doc/src/sgml/config.sgml 19 additions, 20 deletionsdoc/src/sgml/config.sgml
- doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml 32 additions, 29 deletionsdoc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
- src/backend/storage/file/fd.c 5 additions, 4 deletionssrc/backend/storage/file/fd.c
- src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample 1 addition, 1 deletionsrc/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
- src/include/access/xlogdefs.h 3 additions, 3 deletionssrc/include/access/xlogdefs.h
- src/include/port/linux.h 8 additions, 0 deletionssrc/include/port/linux.h
- src/include/port/win32.h 9 additions, 5 deletionssrc/include/port/win32.h
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