Fix pg_dump/pg_restore to restore event triggers later.
Previously, event triggers were restored just after regular triggers (and FK constraints, which are basically triggers). This is risky since an event trigger, once installed, could interfere with subsequent restore commands. Worse, because event triggers don't have any particular dependencies on any post-data objects, a parallel restore would consider them eligible to be restored the moment the post-data phase starts, allowing them to also interfere with restoration of a whole bunch of objects that would have been restored before them in a serial restore. There's no way to completely remove the risk of a misguided event trigger breaking the restore, since if nothing else it could break other event triggers. But we can certainly push them to later in the process to minimize the hazard. To fix, tweak the RestorePass mechanism introduced by commit 3eb9a5e7 so that event triggers are handled as part of the post-ACL processing pass (renaming the "REFRESH" pass to "POST_ACL" to reflect its more general use). This will cause them to restore after everything except matview refreshes, which seems OK since matview refreshes really ought to run in the post-restore state of the database. In a parallel restore, event triggers and matview refreshes might be intermixed, but that seems all right as well. Also update the code and comments in pg_dump_sort.c so that its idea of how things are sorted agrees with what actually happens due to the RestorePass mechanism. This is mostly cosmetic: it'll affect the order of objects in a dump's TOC, but not the actual restore order. But not changing that would be quite confusing to somebody reading the code. Back-patch to all supported branches. Fabrízio de Royes Mello, tweaked a bit by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFcNs+ow1hmFox8P--3GSdtwz-S3Binb6ZmoP6Vk+Xg=K6eZNA@mail.gmail.com
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