4dac22aa10
Provide a way to disable the use of posix_fallocate() for relation
files. It was introduced by commit 4d330a61bb. The new setting
file_extend_method=write_zeros can be used as a workaround for problems
reported from the field:
* BTRFS compression is disabled by the use of posix_fallocate()
* XFS could produce spurious ENOSPC errors in some Linux kernel
versions, though that problem is reported to have been fixed
The default is file_extend_method=posix_fallocate if available, as
before. The write_zeros option is similar to PostgreSQL < 16, except
that now it's multi-block.
Backpatch-through: 16
Reviewed-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Reported-by: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b1843124-fd22-e279-a31f-252dffb6fbf2%40gmx.net
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