Remove HASH_DIRSIZE, always use the default algorithm to select it

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: 4953a25b7f3bb5a555342764231157c76e6acbac
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2026-04-03T23:40:28Z
Remove HASH_DIRSIZE, always use the default algorithm to select it

It's not very useful to specify a non-standard directory size. The
HASH_DIRSIZE option was only used for shared memory hash tables, and
those always used hash_select_dirsize() to choose the size, which in
turn just uses the default algorithm anyway. That assumption was
ingrained in hash_estimate_size(), too.

Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/01ab1d41-3eda-4705-8bbd-af898f5007f1@iki.fi

Files

PathChange+/−
src/backend/storage/ipc/shmem.c modified +1 −2
src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c modified +13 −50
src/include/utils/hsearch.h modified +1 −5

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