Fix background worker not restarting after crash-and-restart cycle.

Previously, if a background worker crashed (e.g., due to a SIGKILL) and
the server restarted due to restart_after_crash being enabled,
the worker was not restarted as expected. Background workers without
the never-restart flag should automatically restart in this case.

This issue was introduced in commit 28a520c0b77, which failed to reset
the rw_pid field in the RegisteredBgWorker struct for the crashed worker.

This commit fixes the problem by resetting rw_pid for all eligible
background workers during the crash-and-restart cycle.

Back-patched to v18, where the bug was introduced.

Bug fix patches were proposed by Andrey Rudometov and ChangAo Chen,
but this commit uses a different approach.

Reported-by: Andrey Rudometov <unlimitedhik...@gmail.com>
Reported-by: ChangAo Chen <cca5...@qq.com>
Author: Andrey Rudometov <unlimitedhik...@gmail.com>
Author: ChangAo Chen <cca5...@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: ChangAo Chen <cca5...@qq.com>
Reviewed-by: Shveta Malik <shveta.ma...@gmail.com>
Discussion: 
https://postgr.es/m/CAF6JsWiO=i24qyitwe6ns1sxqcl86ryxdyu+pnyk-wuekps...@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: 
https://postgr.es/m/tencent_e00a056b3953ee6440f0f40f80ec30427...@qq.com
Backpatch-through: 18

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b5d084c5353f29e2e217dfa86f327e14d02998c1

Modified Files
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src/backend/postmaster/bgworker.c   | 1 +
src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

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