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    Make archiver process an auxiliary process. · d75288fb
    Fujii Masao authored
    This commit changes WAL archiver process so that it's treated as
    an auxiliary process and can use shared memory. This is an infrastructure
    patch required for upcoming shared-memory based stats collector patch
    series. These patch series basically need any processes including archiver
    that can report the statistics to access to shared memory. Since this patch
    itself is useful to simplify the code and when users monitor the status of
    archiver, it's committed separately in advance.
    
    This commit simplifies the code for WAL archiving. For example, previously
    backends need to signal to archiver via postmaster when they notify
    archiver that there are some WAL files to archive. On the other hand,
    this commit removes that signal to postmaster and enables backends to
    notify archier directly using shared latch.
    
    Also, as the side of this change, the information about archiver process
    becomes viewable at pg_stat_activity view.
    
    Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
    Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud, Tomas Vondra, Arthur Zakirov, Fujii Masao
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180629.173418.190173462.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
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