Re: Review: Extra Daemons / bgworker

So here's version 8. This fixes a couple of bugs and most notably
creates a separate PGPROC list for bgworkers, so that they don't
interfere with client-connected backends.

I tested starting 1000 non-shmem attached bgworkers -- postmaster
doesn't break a sweat. Also running 200 backend-connected bgworkers
works fine (assuming they do nothing). This is on my laptop, which is a
dual-core Intel i5 processor.

One notable thing is that I had to introduce this in the postmaster
startup sequence:

/*
* process any libraries that should be preloaded at postmaster start
*/
process_shared_preload_libraries();

/*
* If loadable modules have added background workers, MaxBackends needs to
* be updated. Do so now.
*/
// RerunAssignHook("max_connections");
if (GetNumShmemAttachedBgworkers() > 0)
SetConfigOption("max_connections",
GetConfigOption("max_connections", false, false),
PGC_POSTMASTER, PGC_S_OVERRIDE);

Note the intention here is to re-run the GUC assign hook for
max_connections (hence the commented out hypothetical call to do so).
Obviously, having to go through GetConfigOption and SetConfigOption is
not a nice thing to do; we'll have to add some new entry point to guc.c
for this to have a nicer interface.

(I also observed that it's probably a good idea to have something like
FunctionSetConfigOption for the places that are currently calling
set_config_option directly).

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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