Fix off-by-one in decoding causing one-record events to be skipped.
A ReorderBufferTransaction's end_lsn, the sentPtr advocated by walsender keepalive messages, and the end location remembered by the decoding get_*changes* SQL functions all use the location of the last read record + 1. I.e. the LSN points to the beginning of the next record. That cannot realistically be changed without changing the replication protocol because that's how keepalive messages have worked since 9.0. The bug is that the logic inside the snapshot builder, which decides whether a transaction's contents should be decoded, assumed the start location would point towards the last byte of the last record. The reason this didn't actually cause visible problems is that currently that decision is only made for commit records. Since interesting transactions always have at least one additional record - containing actual data - we'd never skip a transaction. But if there ever were transactions, or other events, with just one record containing important information, we'd skip them after stopping and restarting logical decoding.
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