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Heikki Linnakangas 1b4f1c6f8a Ensure that creation of an empty relfile is fsync'd at checkpoint.
If you create a table and don't insert any data into it, the relation file
is never fsync'd. You don't lose data, because an empty table doesn't have
any data to begin with, but if you crash and lose the file, subsequent
operations on the table will fail with "could not open file" error.

To fix, register an fsync request in mdcreate(), like we do for mdwrite().

Per discussion, we probably should also fsync the containing directory
after creating a new file. But that's a separate and much wider issue.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d47d8122-415e-425c-d0a2-e0160829702d%40iki.fi
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PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	https://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
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system.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
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distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

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