doc: Expand section related to LWLocks and shared memory
The documentation includes a section describing how to define custom
LWLocks in extensions using the shmem hooks. However, it has never
mentioned the second, more flexible method based on the following
routines:
- LWLockNewTrancheId() to allocate a tranche ID.
- LWLockRegisterTranche() to associate a name to a tranche ID.
- LWLockInitialize() to initialize a LWLock with a tranche ID.
autoprewarm.c is the only example of extension in the tree that
allocates a LWLock this way.
This commit adds some documentation about all that. While on it, a
comment is added about the need of AddinShmemInitLock. This is required
especially for EXEC_BACKEND builds (aka Windows, normally), as per a
remark from Alexander, because backends can execute shmem initialization
paths concurrently.
Author: Aleksander Alekseev, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TPKhFgL+54cdTD9yGpG4+sNcyJ+N1GvQqAxgWENAOa3VA@mail.gmail.com
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fe705ef6fc1d1b4b48aea94a1dd2835a6630dacf
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doc/src/sgml/xfunc.sgml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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