Make deadlock_timeout PGC_SUSET rather than PGC_SIGHUP.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: 7095003cbef630fe29c2299cc819fd37c691d0b0
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-22T02:36:59Z
Releases: 9.2.0
Make deadlock_timeout PGC_SUSET rather than PGC_SIGHUP.

This allows deadlock_timeout to be reduced for transactions that are
particularly likely to be involved in a deadlock, thus detecting it
more quickly.  It is also potentially useful as a poor-man's deadlock
priority mechanism: a transaction with a high deadlock_timeout is less
likely to be chosen as the victim than one with a low
deadlock_timeout.  Since that could be used to game the system, we
make this PGC_SUSET rather than PGC_USERSET.

At some point, it might be worth thinking about a more explicit
priority mechanism, since using this is far from fool-proof.  But
let's see whether there's enough use case to justify the additional
work before we go down that route.

Noah Misch, reviewed by Shigeru Hanada

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