Re: fallocate / posix_fallocate for new WAL file creation (etc...)

Greg Smith escribió:

> The messy part of extending relations in larger chunks
> is how to communicate that back into the buffer manager usefully.
> The extension path causing trouble is RelationGetBufferForTuple
> calling ReadBufferBI.  All of that is passing a single buffer
> around.  There's no simple way I can see to rewrite it to handle
> more than one at a time.

No, but we can have it create several pages and insert them into the
FSM.  So they aren't returned to the original caller but are available
to future users.

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