A bunch of changes aimed at reducing backend startup time...

Improve 'pg_internal.init' relcache entry preload mechanism so that it is
safe to use for all system catalogs, and arrange to preload a realistic
set of system-catalog entries instead of only the three nailed-in-cache
indexes that were formerly loaded this way.  Fix mechanism for deleting
out-of-date pg_internal.init files: this must be synchronized with transaction
commit, not just done at random times within transactions.  Drive it off
relcache invalidation mechanism so that no special-case tests are needed.

Cache additional information in relcache entries for indexes (their pg_index
tuples and index-operator OIDs) to eliminate repeated lookups.  Also cache
index opclass info at the per-opclass level to avoid repeated lookups during
relcache load.

Generalize 'systable scan' utilities originally developed by Hiroshi,
move them into genam.c, use in a number of places where there was formerly
ugly code for choosing either heap or index scan.  In particular this allows
simplification of the logic that prevents infinite recursion between syscache
and relcache during startup: we can easily switch to heapscans in relcache.c
when and where needed to avoid recursion, so IndexScanOK becomes simpler and
does not need any expensive initialization.

Eliminate useless opening of a heapscan data structure while doing an indexscan
(this saves an mdnblocks call and thus at least one kernel call).

src/include/utils/relcache.h

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2001, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: relcache.h,v 1.29 2001/11/05 17:46:36 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: relcache.h,v 1.30 2002/02/19 20:11:20 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ extern void RelationInitIndexAccessInfo(Relation relation);
  */
 extern void RelationCacheInitialize(void);
 extern void RelationCacheInitializePhase2(void);
+extern void RelationCacheInitializePhase3(void);
 
 /*
  * Routine to create a relcache entry for an about-to-be-created relation
@@ -62,15 +63,18 @@ extern void RelationPurgeLocalRelation(bool xactComitted);
 
 extern void RelationCacheAbort(void);
 
+/*
+ * Routines to help manage rebuilding of relcache init file
+ */
+extern bool RelationIdIsInInitFile(Oid relationId);
+extern void RelationCacheInitFileInvalidate(bool beforeSend);
 
 /* XLOG support */
 extern void CreateDummyCaches(void);
 extern void DestroyDummyCaches(void);
 
-/*
- * both vacuum.c and relcache.c need to know the name of the relcache init file
- */
 
-#define RELCACHE_INIT_FILENAME	"pg_internal.init"
+/* should be used only by relcache.c and catcache.c */
+extern bool criticalRelcachesBuilt;
 
 #endif   /* RELCACHE_H */