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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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