On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 12:26 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> We rely on it today, e.g. for the control file.
I think that's the only place, though. We can't rely on it for data
files because base backups don't go through shared buffers, so reads
and writes can get torn in memory and not just on sector boundaries.
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