Un-break parallel pg_upgrade.
Commit b3f84012 changed pg_upgrade so that it'd actually drop and re-create the template1 and postgres databases in the new cluster. That works fine, serially. With the -j option it's not so fine, because other per-database jobs might be launched while the template1 database is dropped. Since they attempt to connect there to start up, kaboom. This is the cause of the intermittent failures buildfarm member jacana has been showing for the last month; evidently it is the only BF member configured to run the pg_upgrade test with parallelism enabled. Fix by processing template1 separately before we get into the parallel sub-job launch loop. (We could alternatively have made the postgres DB be the special case, but it seems likely that template1 will contain less stuff and so we lose less parallelism with this choice.)
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