Fix treatment of *lpNumberOfBytesRecvd == 0: that's a completion condition.
pgwin32_recv() has treated a non-error return of zero bytes from WSARecv() as being a reason to block ever since the current implementation was introduced in commit a4c40f14. However, so far as one can tell from Microsoft's documentation, that is just wrong: what it means is graceful connection closure (in stream protocols) or receipt of a zero-length message (in message protocols), and neither case should result in blocking here. The only reason the code worked at all was that control then fell into the retry loop, which did *not* treat zero bytes specially, so we'd get out after only wasting some cycles. But as of 9.5 we do not normally reach the retry loop and so the bug is exposed, as reported by Shay Rojansky and diagnosed by Andres Freund. Remove the unnecessary test on the byte count, and rearrange the code in the retry loop so that it looks identical to the initial sequence. Back-patch to 9.5. The code is wrong all the way back, AFAICS, but since it's relatively harmless in earlier branches we'll leave it alone.
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