Change the autovacuum launcher to read pg_database directly, rather than

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 00e6a16d01683762c2f34eb4909fc739093ab3bf
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2009-08-31T19:41:00Z
Releases: 9.0.0
Change the autovacuum launcher to read pg_database directly, rather than
via the "flat files" facility.  This requires making it enough like a backend
to be able to run transactions; it's no longer an "auxiliary process" but
more like the autovacuum worker processes.  Also, its signal handling has
to be brought into line with backends/workers.  In particular, since it
now has to handle procsignal.c processing, the special autovac-launcher-only
signal conditions are moved to SIGUSR2.

Alvaro, with some cleanup from Tom

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