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    Provide a reliable mechanism for terminating a background worker. · 523beaa1
    Robert Haas authored
    Although previously-introduced APIs allow the process that registers a
    background worker to obtain the worker's PID, there's no way to prevent
    a worker that is not currently running from being restarted.  This
    patch introduces a new API TerminateBackgroundWorker() that prevents
    the background worker from being restarted, terminates it if it is
    currently running, and causes it to be unregistered if or when it is
    not running.
    
    Patch by me.  Review by Michael Paquier and KaiGai Kohei.
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