It's good hygiene if e.g. an extension launches a subprogram when
being loaded. We went through some effort to close them in the child
process in EXEC_BACKEND mode, but it's better to not hand them down to
the child process in the first place. We still need to close them
after fork when !EXEC_BACKEND, but it's a little simpler.
In the passing, LOG a message if closing the client connection or
listen socket fails. Shouldn't happen, but if it does, would be nice
to know.
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin, Andres Freund, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7a59b073-5b5b-151e-7ed3-8b01ff7ce9ef@iki.fi
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