Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.

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

Commit: 45476031a54c12bebf2f209ea2b6fb3bfc905193
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2011-08-16T17:12:03Z
Releases: 9.1.0
Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.

The previous code tried to synchronize by unlinking the init file twice,
but that doesn't actually work: it leaves a window wherein a third process
could read the already-stale init file but miss the SI messages that would
tell it the data is stale.  The result would be bizarre failures in catalog
accesses, typically "could not read block 0 in file ..." later during
startup.

Instead, hold RelCacheInitLock across both the unlink and the sending of
the SI messages.  This is more straightforward, and might even be a bit
faster since only one unlink call is needed.

This has been wrong since it was put in (in 2002!), so back-patch to all
supported releases.

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