Add some checkpoint/restartpoint status to ps display

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: df9274adf3096feafbbde2562311c8ab80405267
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2020-12-14T02:53:58Z
Releases: 14.0
Add some checkpoint/restartpoint status to ps display

This is done for end-of-recovery and shutdown checkpoints/restartpoints
(end-of-recovery restartpoints don't exist) rather than all types of
checkpoints, in cases where it may not be possible to rely on
pg_stat_activity to get a status from the startup or checkpointer
processes.

For example, at the end of a crash recovery, this is useful to know if a
checkpoint is running in the startup process, while previously the ps
display may only show some information about "recovering" something,
that can be confusing while a checkpoint runs.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Kirk Jamison, Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200818225238.GP17022@telsasoft.com

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src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c modified +45 −0

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