Re: scalability bottlenecks with (many) partitions (and more)

Hi,

I've finally pushed this, after many rounds of careful testing to ensure
no regressions, and polishing. All changes since the version shared on
September 13 are only cosmetic - renaming a macro to keep it consistent
with the other ones, clarifying a couple comments etc. Nothing major.

I ended up squashing the two parts into a single commit. I thought about
keeping the two steps, but it seemed pointless - the first part inflated
the PGPROC struct, which I didn't like to commit, even if only as an
intermediate WIP state.

So far buildfarm didn't blew up, so let's hope it will stay that way.

I just realized there's no CF entry for this - sorry about that :-( I
started the thread a year ago to discuss an experimental patche, and it
never made it to CFA. But there was a discussion spanning a year, so
hopefully that's enough.


regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra