Cap wal_buffers to avoid a server crash when it's set very large.

Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>

Commit: b09446ed7eecc7cee6f7cc1dcc954c75c6c7570b
Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-08-04T17:12:03Z
Releases: 9.0.23
Cap wal_buffers to avoid a server crash when it's set very large.

It must be possible to multiply wal_buffers by XLOG_BLCKSZ without
overflowing int, or calculations in StartupXLOG will go badly wrong
and crash the server.  Avoid that by imposing a maximum value on
wal_buffers.  This will be just under 2GB, assuming the usual value
for XLOG_BLCKSZ.

Josh Berkus, per an analysis by Andrew Gierth.

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