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Thomas Munro e2f65f4255 Fix old-fd issues using global barriers everywhere.
Commits 4eb21763 and b74e94dc introduced a way to force every backend to
close all relation files, to fix an ancient Windows-only bug.

This commit extends that behavior to all operating systems and adds
a couple of extra barrier points, to fix a totally different class of
bug: the reuse of relfilenodes in scenarios that have no other kind of
cache invalidation to prevent file descriptor mix-ups.

In all releases, data corruption could occur when you moved a database
to another tablespace and then back again.  Despite that, no back-patch
for now as the infrastructure required is too new and invasive.  In
master only, since commit aa010514, it could also happen when using
CREATE DATABASE with a user-supplied OID or via pg_upgrade.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220209220004.kb3dgtn2x2k2gtdm%40alap3.anarazel.de
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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
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/.