Tweak pg_promote() to report failures on kill() or postmaster failures

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: f593c5517d14a949ae659eec470eb6bc0d2fdd5d
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2023-08-28T23:45:04Z
Releases: 17.0
Tweak pg_promote() to report failures on kill() or postmaster failures

Since its introduction in 10074651e335, pg_promote() has been returning
a false status in three cases:
- SIGUSR1 not sent to the postmaster process.
- Postmaster death during standby promotion.
- Standby not promoted within the specified wait time.

An application calling this function will have a hard time understanding
what a false state returned actually means.

Per discussion, this switches the two first states to fail rather than
return a "false" status, making the second case more consistent with the
existing CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in the wait loop.  False is only returned
when the promotion is not completed within the specified time (60s by
default).

Author: Ashutosh Sharma
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao, Laurenz Albe, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0P=QTrwptL0t4J0fuBRDDjgsT-0PVKd-ikd96i1hyL7Bcg@mail.gmail.com

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src/backend/access/transam/xlogfuncs.c modified +7 −4

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