Get rid of the post-recovery cleanup step of GIN page splits.
Replace it with an approach similar to what GiST uses: when a page is split, the left sibling is marked with a flag indicating that the parent hasn't been updated yet. When the parent is updated, the flag is cleared. If an insertion steps on a page with the flag set, it will finish split before proceeding with the insertion. The post-recovery cleanup mechanism was never totally reliable, as insertion to the parent could fail e.g because of running out of memory or disk space, leaving the tree in an inconsistent state. This also divides the responsibility of WAL-logging more clearly between the generic ginbtree.c code, and the parts specific to entry and posting trees. There is now a common WAL record format for insertions and deletions, which is written by ginbtree.c, followed by tree-specific payload, which is returned by the placetopage- and split- callbacks.
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