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Heikki Linnakangas d85bf0719e 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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README

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
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
https://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.