... btw, in the penny wise and pound foolish department, I observe that
smgrdounlink calls mdunlink separately for each possibly existing fork
of a relation to be dropped. That means we are queuing a separate fsync
queue entry for each fork, and could immediately save a factor of four
in FORGET_RELATION_FSYNC traffic if we were to redefine those queue
entries as applying to all forks. The only reason to have a per-fork
variant, AFAICS, is for smgrdounlinkfork(), which is used nowhere and
exists only because I was too chicken to remove the functionality
outright in commit ece01aae479227d9836294b287d872c5a6146a11. But given
that we know the fsync queue can be a bottleneck, my vote is to refactor
mdunlink to apply to all forks and send only one message.
I am also wondering whether it's really necessary to send fsync request
messages for backend-local relations. If rnode.backend says it's local,
can't we skip sending the fsync request? All local relations are
flush-on-crash anyway, no?
regards, tom lane
