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smgrreadv() and smgrwritev() and their md.c implementations call FileReadV() and FileWriteV(). A range of disk blocks beginning at 'blocknum' and extending for 'nblocks' can be scattered to or gathered from multiple buffers with a single system call. The traditional smgrread() and smgrwrite() functions are implemented in terms of the new functions. Later commits will introduce calls with nblocks > 1, but the following behavioral changes can be seen already: * After a short transfer we'll now retry until we eventually read 0 bytes (= EOF) or get ENOSPC, EDQUOT, EFBIG etc, where previously we would infer the reason. Retrying is consistent with xlog.c's treatment of large WAL writes, and arguably also xlog.c and fd.c's treatment of EINTR. Arbitrary short returns for larger transfers have been observed on several OSes, and might in theory also happen for transient reasons with our own pg_p*v() fallback code. * After unexpected EOF or -1, the error thrown now talks about a range even for the single block case, eg "blocks 42..42". Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJkOiOCa+mag4BF+zHo7qo=o9CFheB8=g6uT5TUm2gkvA@mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.