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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Jakub Wartak <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Cc: Dimitrios Apostolou <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
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Cc: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PING] fallocate() causes btrfs to never compress postgresql files
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:59:41 -0400
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:14:07AM +0100, Jakub Wartak wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 4:56 AM Thomas Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM Dimitrios Apostolou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Sorry to ping again, but was there a conclusion reached regarding adding the new file_extend_method setting?
> >
> > No objections appeared, so the conclusion I am drawing is that we
> > should do this,
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> +1 to this GUCs as this would also help the nearby thread with XFS
> mysteries which are not fully solved [1]. Since the latest message in
> that discussion, I'm aware of at least one additional report of XFS
> failing at fallocate() with free space too, but without any details
> from the OS support vendor why that happened, so this $patch could be
> also used to workaround that problem too.

Uh, the problem with backpatching new GUCs is that the GUC variable will
_not_ appear in any postgresql.conf file until a new initdb is run. 
This can be quite confusing for people.  The minor release notes have to
explain this.

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