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    Reserve zero as an invalid DSM handle. · b40b4dd9
    Robert Haas authored
    Previously, the handle for the control segment could not be zero, but
    some other DSM segment could potentially have a handle value of zero.
    However, that means that if someone wanted to store a dsm_handle that
    might or might not be valid, they would need a separate boolean to
    keep track of whether the associated value is legal.  That's annoying,
    so change things so that no DSM segment can ever have a handle of 0 -
    or as we call it here, DSM_HANDLE_INVALID.
    
    Thomas Munro.  This was submitted as part of a much larger patch to
    add an malloc-like allocator for dynamic shared memory, but this part
    seems like a good idea independently of the rest of the patch.
    b40b4dd9
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