Retire pg_standby.

Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>

Commit: 514b411a2b5226167add9ab139d3a96dbe98035d
Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-01-29T01:09:41Z
Releases: 14.0
Retire pg_standby.

pg_standby was useful more than a decade ago, but now it is obsolete.
It has been proposed that we retire it many times.  Now seems like a
good time to finally do it, because "waiting restore commands"
are incompatible with a proposed recovery prefetching feature.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201029024412.GP5380%40telsasoft.com
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>

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