In pg_ctl, work around ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION on the postmaster log file.

On Windows, we use CMD.EXE to redirect the postmaster's stdout/stderr
into a log file.  CMD.EXE will open that file with non-sharing-friendly
parameters, and the file will remain open for a short time after the
postmaster has removed postmaster.pid.  This can result in an
ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION failure if we attempt to start a new postmaster
immediately with the same log file (e.g. during "pg_ctl restart").
This seems to explain intermittent buildfarm failures we've been seeing
on Windows machines.

To fix, just open and close the log file using our own pgwin32_open(),
which will wait if necessary to avoid the failure.  (Perhaps someday
we should stop using CMD.EXE, but that would be a far more complex
patch, and it doesn't seem worth the trouble ... yet.)

Back-patch to v12.  This only solves the problem when frontend fopen()
is redirected to pgwin32_fopen(), which has only been true since commit
0ba06e0bf.  Hence, no point in back-patching further, unless we care
to back-patch that change too.

Diagnosis and patch by Alexander Lakhin (bug #16154).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]

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