Patch by Jesper Pedersen and Ashutosh Sharma, with some error handling
improvements by me.  Tests from Peter Eisentraut.  Reviewed by Álvaro
Herrera, Michael Paquier, Jesper Pedersen, Jeff Janes, Peter
Eisentraut, Amit Kapila, Mithun Cy, and me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/e2ac6c58-b93f-9dd9-f4e6-d6d30add7fdf@redhat.com