Improve replication connection timeouts.

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: 6f60fdd7015b032bf49273c99f80913d57eac284
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2012-10-11T14:48:08Z
Releases: 9.3.0
Improve replication connection timeouts.

Rename replication_timeout to wal_sender_timeout, and add a new setting
called wal_receiver_timeout that does the same at the walreceiver side.
There was previously no timeout in walreceiver, so if the network went down,
for example, the walreceiver could take a long time to notice that the
connection was lost. Now with the two settings, both sides of a replication
connection will detect a broken connection similarly.

It is no longer necessary to manually set wal_receiver_status_interval to
a value smaller than the timeout. Both wal sender and receiver now
automatically send a "ping" message if more than 1/2 of the configured
timeout has elapsed, and it hasn't received any messages from the other end.

Amit Kapila, heavily edited by me.

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