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Restoring a base backup taken in the middle of CreateDirAndVersionFile() or write_relmap_file() would lose the function's effects. The symptom was absence of the database directory, PG_VERSION file, or pg_filenode.map. If missing the directory, recovery would fail. Either missing file would not fail recovery but would render the new database unusable. Fix CreateDirAndVersionFile() with the transam/README "action first and then write a WAL entry" strategy. That has a side benefit of moving filesystem mutations out of a critical section, reducing the ways to PANIC. Fix the write_relmap_file() call with a lock acquisition, so it interacts with checkpoints like non-CREATE DATABASE calls do. Back-patch to v15, where commit 9c08aea6a3090a396be334cc58c511edab05776a introduced STRATEGY=WAL_LOG and made it the default. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240130195003.0a.nmisch@google.com
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