Remove promote_trigger_file.

Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>

Commit: cd4329d9393f84dce34f0bd2dd936adc8ffaa213
Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-11-28T23:08:38Z
Releases: 16.0
Remove promote_trigger_file.

Previously, an idle startup (recovery) process would wake up every 5
seconds to have a chance to poll for promote_trigger_file, even if that
GUC was not configured.  That promotion triggering mechanism was
effectively superseded by pg_ctl promote and pg_promote() a long time
ago.  There probably aren't many users left and it's very easy to change
to the modern mechanisms, so we agreed to remove the feature.

This is part of a campaign to reduce wakeups on idle systems.

Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-FsjnzVOQGBpQ589%3DnWuL1Ex0Ykn74Nh1hEjp2usZSR5g%40mail.gmail.com

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