Fix old-fd issues using global barriers everywhere.

Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>

Commit: e2f65f42555ff531c6d7c8f151526b4ef7c016f8
Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-05-07T04:47:29Z
Releases: 15.0
Fix old-fd issues using global barriers everywhere.

Commits 4eb21763 and b74e94dc introduced a way to force every backend to
close all relation files, to fix an ancient Windows-only bug.

This commit extends that behavior to all operating systems and adds
a couple of extra barrier points, to fix a totally different class of
bug: the reuse of relfilenodes in scenarios that have no other kind of
cache invalidation to prevent file descriptor mix-ups.

In all releases, data corruption could occur when you moved a database
to another tablespace and then back again.  Despite that, no back-patch
for now as the infrastructure required is too new and invasive.  In
master only, since commit aa010514, it could also happen when using
CREATE DATABASE with a user-supplied OID or via pg_upgrade.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220209220004.kb3dgtn2x2k2gtdm%40alap3.anarazel.de

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