Re: Use pg_pwritev_with_retry() instead of write() in dir_open_for_write() to avoid partial writes? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 03:58:25PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> The block sizes don't need to match, do they? As long as the block is properly
> aligned, we can change the iov_len of the final iov to match whatever the size
> is being passed in, no?

Hmm.  Based on what Bharath has written upthread, it does not seem to
matter if the size of the aligned block changes, either:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALj2ACUccjR7KbKqWOsQmqH1ZGEDyJ7hH5Ef+DOhcv7+kOnjCQ@mail.gmail.com

I am honestly not sure whether it is a good idea to make file_utils.c
depend on one of the compile-time page sizes in this routine, be it
the page size of the WAL page size, as pg_write_zeros() would be used
for some rather low-level operations.  But we could as well just use a
locally-defined structure with a buffer at 4kB or 8kB and call it a
day?
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Michael