errbacktrace

New thread continuing from
<https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d4903af2-e7b7-b551-71f8-3e4a6bdc2e73@2ndquadrant.com>.

Here is a extended version of Álvaro's patch that adds an errbacktrace()
function. You can do two things with this:

- Manually attach it to an ereport() call site that you want to debug.

- Set a configuration parameter like backtrace_function = 'int8in' to
debug ereport()/elog() calls in a specific function.

There was also mention of settings that would automatically produce
backtraces for PANICs etc. Those could surely be added if there is
enough interest.

For the implementation, I support both backtrace() provided by the OS as
well as using libunwind. The former seems to be supported by a number
of platforms, including glibc, macOS, and FreeBSD, so maybe we don't
need the libunwind suport. I haven't found any difference in quality in
the backtraces between the two approaches, but surely that is highly
dependent on the exact configuration.

I would welcome testing in all direction with this, to see how well it
works in different circumstances.

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