Avoid passing function pointers across process boundaries.

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

Commit: 32470825d36d99a81347ee36c181d609c952c061
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2017-04-15T03:50:16Z
Releases: 10.0
Avoid passing function pointers across process boundaries.

We'd already recognized that we can't pass function pointers across process
boundaries for functions in loadable modules, since a shared library could
get loaded at different addresses in different processes.  But actually the
practice doesn't work for functions in the core backend either, if we're
using EXEC_BACKEND.  This is the cause of recent failures on buildfarm
member culicidae.  Switch to passing a string function name in all cases.

Something like this needs to be back-patched into 9.6, but let's see
if the buildfarm likes it first.

Petr Jelinek, with a bunch of basically-cosmetic adjustments by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/548f9c1d-eafa-e3fa-9da8-f0cc2f654e60@2ndquadrant.com

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