Permit super-MaxAllocSize allocations with MemoryContextAllocHuge().

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

Commit: 263865a48973767ce8ed7b7788059a38a24a9f37
Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: 2013-06-27T18:53:57Z
Releases: 9.4.0
Permit super-MaxAllocSize allocations with MemoryContextAllocHuge().

The MaxAllocSize guard is convenient for most callers, because it
reduces the need for careful attention to overflow, data type selection,
and the SET_VARSIZE() limit.  A handful of callers are happy to navigate
those hazards in exchange for the ability to allocate a larger chunk.
Introduce MemoryContextAllocHuge() and repalloc_huge().  Use this in
tuplesort.c and tuplestore.c, enabling internal sorts of up to INT_MAX
tuples, a factor-of-48 increase.  In particular, B-tree index builds can
now benefit from much-larger maintenance_work_mem settings.

Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Simon Riggs and Jeff Janes.

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