I wrote:
> Okay, but you failed to correctly reproduce the conditions for closing
> the old file.

A more bulletproof solution might involve passing sync_method to
get_sync_bit as an explicit parameter, and then the assign hook
could do
if (get_sync_bit(sync_method) != get_sync_bit(new_sync_method))
XLogFileClose();

regards, tom lane

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