Re: archive status ".ready" files may be created too early

So why do we call this structure "record boundary map", when the
boundaries it refers to are segment boundaries? I think we should call
it "segment boundary map" instead ... and also I think we should use
that name in the lock that protects it, so instead of ArchNotifyLock, it
could be SegmentBoundaryLock or perhaps WalSegmentBoundaryLock.

The reason for the latter is that I suspect the segment boundary map
will also have a use to fix the streaming replication issue I mentioned
earlier in the thread. This also makes me think that we'll want the wal
record *start* address to be in the hash table too, not just its *end*
address. So we'll use the start-1 as position to send, rather than the
end-of-segment when GetFlushRecPtr() returns that.

As for 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, I think it would be cleaner to do a
#define MaxXLogSegNo with that value in the line immediately after
typedef XLogSegNo, rather than use the numerical value directly in the
assignment.

Typo in comment atop RemoveRecordBoundariesUpTo: it reads "up to an",
should read "up to and".

I think the API of GetLatestRecordBoundarySegment would be better by
returning the boolean and having the segment as out argument. Then you
could do the caller more cleanly,

if (GetLatestRecordBoundarySegment(last_notified, flushed, &latest_boundary_segment))
{
SetLastNotified( ... );
RemoveRecordBoundaries( ... );
LWLockRelease( ... );
for (..)
XLogArchiveNotifySeg(...);
PgArchWakeup();
}
else
LWLockRelease(...);

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