Hi, I noticed that dir_open_for_write() in walmethods.c uses write() for WAL file initialization (note that this code is used by pg_receivewal and pg_basebackup) as opposed to core using pg_pwritev_with_retry() in XLogFileInitInternal() to avoid partial writes. Do we need to fix this?
Thoughts? -- Bharath Rupireddy RDS Open Source Databases: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/