Implement COMMIT_SIBLINGS parameter to allow pre-commit delay to occur

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

Commit: 9c9936587c6a9aeb8b425a499cf73e5e7af38ddd
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2001-02-26T00:50:08Z
Releases: 7.1.1
Implement COMMIT_SIBLINGS parameter to allow pre-commit delay to occur
only if at least N other backends currently have open transactions.  This
is not a great deal of intelligence about whether a delay might be
profitable ... but it beats no intelligence at all.  Note that the default
COMMIT_DELAY is still zero --- this new code does nothing unless that
setting is changed.
Also, mark ENABLEFSYNC as a system-wide setting.  It's no longer safe to
allow that to be set per-backend, since we may be relying on some other
backend's fsync to have synced the WAL log.

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