Use vector clocks for room stream tokens.

changelog.d/8439.misc

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+Allow events to be sent to clients sooner when using sharded event persisters.

synapse/storage/databases/main/schema/delta/58/19instance_map.sql.postgres

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+/* Copyright 2020 The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+
+-- A unique and immutable mapping between instance name and an integer ID. This
+-- lets us refer to instances via a small ID in e.g. stream tokens, without
+-- having to encode the full name.
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS instance_map (
+    instance_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+    instance_name TEXT NOT NULL
+);
+
+CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS instance_map_idx ON instance_map(instance_name);