Disable event triggers in standalone mode.

Per discussion, this seems necessary to allow recovery from broken event
triggers, or broken indexes on pg_event_trigger.

Dimitri Fontaine

src/backend/commands/event_trigger.c

@@ -566,6 +566,25 @@ EventTriggerDDLCommandStart(Node *parsetree)
 	const char *tag;
 	EventTriggerData	trigdata;
 
+	/*
+	 * Event Triggers are completely disabled in standalone mode.  There are
+	 * (at least) two reasons for this:
+	 *
+	 * 1. A sufficiently broken event trigger might not only render the
+	 * database unusable, but prevent disabling itself to fix the situation.
+	 * In this scenario, restarting in standalone mode provides an escape
+	 * hatch.
+	 *
+	 * 2. BuildEventTriggerCache relies on systable_beginscan_ordered, and
+	 * therefore will malfunction if pg_event_trigger's indexes are damaged.
+	 * To allow recovery from a damaged index, we need some operating mode
+	 * wherein event triggers are disabled.  (Or we could implement
+	 * heapscan-and-sort logic for that case, but having disaster recovery
+	 * scenarios depend on code that's otherwise untested isn't appetizing.)
+	 */
+	if (!IsUnderPostmaster)
+		return;
+
 	/*
 	 * We want the list of command tags for which this procedure is actually
 	 * invoked to match up exactly with the list that CREATE EVENT TRIGGER