Fix contrib/seg's GiST picksplit method.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 2a6ebe70fb2f7ec97a08dc07214fe2ca571d2780
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2010-12-16T02:24:47Z
Releases: 9.1.0
Fix contrib/seg's GiST picksplit method.

This patch replaces Guttman's generalized split method with a simple
sort-by-center-points algorithm.  Since the data is only one-dimensional
we don't really need the slow and none-too-stable Guttman method.

This is in part a bug fix, since seg has the same size_alpha versus
size_beta typo that was recently fixed in contrib/cube.  It seems
prudent to apply this rather aggressive fix only in HEAD, though.
Back branches will just get the typo fix.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Yeb Havinga

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