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Commit 428b1d6b29ca599c5700d4bc4f4ce4c5880369bf introduced the use of msync() for flushing dirty data from the kernel's file buffers. Several portability issues were overlooked, though: * Not all implementations of mmap() think that nbytes == 0 means "map the whole file". To fix, use lseek() to find out the true length. Fix callers of pg_flush_data to be aware that nbytes == 0 may result in trashing the file's seek position. * Not all implementations of mmap() will accept partial-page mmap requests. To fix, round down the length request to whatever sysconf() says the page size is. (I think this is OK from a portability standpoint, because sysconf() is required by SUS v2, and we aren't trying to compile this part on Windows anyway. Buildfarm should let us know if not.) * On 32-bit machines, the file size might exceed the available free address space, or even exceed what will fit in size_t. Check for the latter explicitly to avoid passing a false request size to mmap(). If mmap fails, silently fall through to the next implementation method, rather than bleating to the postmaster log and giving up. * mmap'ing directories fails on some platforms, and even if it works, msync'ing the directory is quite unlikely to help, as for that matter are the other flush implementations. In pre_sync_fname(), just skip flush attempts on directories. In passing, copy-edit the comments a bit. Stas Kelvich and myself
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