Re: Use pg_pwritev_with_retry() instead of write() in dir_open_for_write() to avoid partial writes?

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 08:09:56PM -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> Looks reasonable to me.

0001, to move pg_pwritev_with_retry() to a new home, seems fine, so
applied.

Regarding 0002, using pg_pwrite_zeros() as a routine name, as
suggested by Thomas, sounds good to me.  However, I am not really a
fan of its dependency with PGAlignedXLogBlock, because it should be
able to work with any buffers of any sizes, as long as the input
buffer is aligned, shouldn't it?  For example, what about
PGAlignedBlock?  So, should we make this more extensible?  My guess
would be the addition of the block size and the block pointer to the
arguments of pg_pwrite_zeros(), in combination with a check to make
sure that the input buffer is MAXALIGN()'d (with an Assert() rather
than just an elog/pg_log_error?).
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Michael