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-rw-r--r--src/backend/storage/file/fd.c9
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample2
-rw-r--r--src/include/access/xlogdefs.h6
-rw-r--r--src/include/port/linux.h8
-rw-r--r--src/include/port/win32.h14
5 files changed, 26 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c b/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c
index fd5ec7805fd..4f7dc39d638 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/file/fd.c
@@ -260,12 +260,13 @@ static bool looks_like_temp_rel_name(const char *name);
int
pg_fsync(int fd)
{
-#ifndef HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH_ONLY
- if (sync_method != SYNC_METHOD_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH)
- return pg_fsync_no_writethrough(fd);
+ /* #if is to skip the sync_method test if there's no need for it */
+#if defined(HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH) && !defined(FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH_IS_FSYNC)
+ if (sync_method == SYNC_METHOD_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH)
+ return pg_fsync_writethrough(fd);
else
#endif
- return pg_fsync_writethrough(fd);
+ return pg_fsync_no_writethrough(fd);
}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
index 80ee04d30a9..f436b834680 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
#wal_sync_method = fsync # the default is the first option
# supported by the operating system:
# open_datasync
- # fdatasync
+ # fdatasync (default on Linux)
# fsync
# fsync_writethrough
# open_sync
diff --git a/src/include/access/xlogdefs.h b/src/include/access/xlogdefs.h
index 18b214e992a..072096ddff5 100644
--- a/src/include/access/xlogdefs.h
+++ b/src/include/access/xlogdefs.h
@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ typedef uint32 TimeLineID;
#endif
#endif
-#if defined(OPEN_DATASYNC_FLAG)
+#if defined(PLATFORM_DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD)
+#define DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD PLATFORM_DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD
+#elif defined(OPEN_DATASYNC_FLAG)
#define DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD SYNC_METHOD_OPEN_DSYNC
#elif defined(HAVE_FDATASYNC)
#define DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD SYNC_METHOD_FDATASYNC
-#elif defined(HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH_ONLY)
-#define DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD SYNC_METHOD_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH
#else
#define DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD SYNC_METHOD_FSYNC
#endif
diff --git a/src/include/port/linux.h b/src/include/port/linux.h
index b9498b239df..bcaa42dc4ed 100644
--- a/src/include/port/linux.h
+++ b/src/include/port/linux.h
@@ -12,3 +12,11 @@
* to have a kernel version test here.
*/
#define HAVE_LINUX_EIDRM_BUG
+
+/*
+ * Set the default wal_sync_method to fdatasync. With recent Linux versions,
+ * xlogdefs.h's normal rules will prefer open_datasync, which (a) doesn't
+ * perform better and (b) causes outright failures on ext4 data=journal
+ * filesystems, because those don't support O_DIRECT.
+ */
+#define PLATFORM_DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD SYNC_METHOD_FDATASYNC
diff --git a/src/include/port/win32.h b/src/include/port/win32.h
index 3417ab5e95c..9c2ae4d60c8 100644
--- a/src/include/port/win32.h
+++ b/src/include/port/win32.h
@@ -34,14 +34,18 @@
/* Must be here to avoid conflicting with prototype in windows.h */
#define mkdir(a,b) mkdir(a)
-#define HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH
-#define HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH_ONLY
#define ftruncate(a,b) chsize(a,b)
+
+/* Windows doesn't have fsync() as such, use _commit() */
+#define fsync(fd) _commit(fd)
+
/*
- * Even though we don't support 'fsync' as a wal_sync_method,
- * we do fsync() a few other places where _commit() is just fine.
+ * For historical reasons, we allow setting wal_sync_method to
+ * fsync_writethrough on Windows, even though it's really identical to fsync
+ * (both code paths wind up at _commit()).
*/
-#define fsync(fd) _commit(fd)
+#define HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH
+#define FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH_IS_FSYNC
#define USES_WINSOCK