Truncate line pointer array during VACUUM.

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

Commit: 3c3b8a4b26891892bccf3d220580a7f413c0b9ca
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Date: 2021-04-07T15:47:15Z
Releases: 14.0
Truncate line pointer array during VACUUM.

Teach VACUUM to truncate the line pointer array of each heap page when a
contiguous group of LP_UNUSED line pointers appear at the end of the
array -- these unused and unreferenced items are excluded.  This process
occurs during VACUUM's second pass over the heap, right after LP_DEAD
line pointers on the page (those encountered/pruned during the first
pass) are marked LP_UNUSED.

Truncation avoids line pointer bloat with certain workloads,
particularly those involving continual range DELETEs and bulk INSERTs
against the same table.

Also harden heapam code to check for an out-of-range page offset number
in places where we weren't already doing so.

Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
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