Support unlogged tables.

The contents of an unlogged table are WAL-logged; thus, they are not
available on standby servers and are truncated whenever the database
system enters recovery.  Indexes on unlogged tables are also unlogged.
Unlogged GiST indexes are not currently supported.

src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtree.c

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "storage/indexfsm.h"
 #include "storage/ipc.h"
 #include "storage/lmgr.h"
+#include "storage/smgr.h"
 #include "utils/memutils.h"
 
 
@@ -204,6 +205,36 @@ btbuildCallback(Relation index,
 	pfree(itup);
 }
 
+/*
+ *	btbuildempty() -- build an empty btree index in the initialization fork
+ */
+Datum
+btbuildempty(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+	Relation	index = (Relation) PG_GETARG_POINTER(0);
+	Page		metapage;
+
+	/* Construct metapage. */
+	metapage = (Page) palloc(BLCKSZ);
+	_bt_initmetapage(metapage, P_NONE, 0);
+
+	/* Write the page.  If archiving/streaming, XLOG it. */
+	smgrwrite(index->rd_smgr, INIT_FORKNUM, BTREE_METAPAGE,
+			  (char *) metapage, true);
+	if (XLogIsNeeded())
+		log_newpage(&index->rd_smgr->smgr_rnode.node, INIT_FORKNUM,
+					BTREE_METAPAGE, metapage);
+
+	/*
+	 * An immediate sync is require even if we xlog'd the page, because the
+	 * write did not go through shared_buffers and therefore a concurrent
+	 * checkpoint may have move the redo pointer past our xlog record.
+	 */
+	smgrimmedsync(index->rd_smgr, INIT_FORKNUM);
+
+	PG_RETURN_VOID();
+}
+
 /*
  *	btinsert() -- insert an index tuple into a btree.
  *