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Michael Paquier 15f68cebdc Add TAP test to check recovery when redo LSN is missing
This commit provides test coverage for dc7c77f825, where the redo
record and the checkpoint record finish on different WAL segments with
the start of recovery able to detect that the redo record is missing.

This test uses a wait injection point done in the critical section of a
checkpoint, method that requires not one but actually two wait injection
points to avoid any memory allocations within the critical section of
the checkpoint:
- Checkpoint run with a background psql.
- One first wait point is run by the checkpointer before the critical
section, allocating the shared memory required by the DSM registry for
the wait machinery in the library injection_points.
- First point is woken up.
- Second wait point is loaded before the critical section, allocating
the memory to build the path to the library loaded, then run in the
critical section once the checkpoint redo record has been logged.
- WAL segment is switched while waiting on the second point.
- Checkpoint completes.
- Stop cluster with immediate mode.
- The segment that includes the redo record is removed.
- Start, recovery fails as the redo record cannot be found.

The error message introduced in dc7c77f825 is now reduced to a FATAL,
meaning that the information is still provided while being able to use a
test for it.  Nitin has provided a basic version of the test, that I
have enhanced to make it portable with two points.  Without
dc7c77f825, the cluster crashes in this test, not on a PANIC but due
to the pointer dereference at the beginning of recovery, failure
mentioned in the other commit.

Author: Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMm1aWaaJi2w49c0RiaDBfhdCL6ztbr9m=daGqiOuVdizYWYaA@mail.gmail.com
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PostgreSQL tests
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This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication (but see also below)

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

kerberos/
  Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication and encryption

ldap/
  Tests for LDAP-based authentication

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication