Fix publisher shutdown hang caused by logical walsender busy loop.

Previously, when logical replication was running, shutting down
the publisher could cause the logical walsender to enter a busy loop
and prevent the publisher from completing shutdown.

During shutdown, the logical walsender waits for all pending WAL
to be written out. However, some WAL records could remain unflushed,
causing the walsender to wait indefinitely.

The issue occurred because the walsender used XLogBackgroundFlush() to
flush pending WAL. This function does not guarantee that all WAL is written.
For example, WAL generated by a transaction without an assigned
transaction ID that aborts might not be flushed.

This commit fixes the bug by making the logical walsender call XLogFlush()
instead, ensuring that all pending WAL is written and preventing
the busy loop during shutdown.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
Discussion: 
https://postgr.es/m/cao6_xqo3co3buuvevzkabvw9lidbgeeq_2hfxelmqcxwovb...@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6eedb2a5fd88da11fab92dcde9205366f6fff82f

Modified Files
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src/backend/replication/walsender.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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