Consistently truncate non-key suffix columns.

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

Commit: 4b42a89938ac9d2ec06e9d831356407040e9094c
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Date: 2020-03-30T19:03:59Z
Releases: 13.0
Consistently truncate non-key suffix columns.

INCLUDE indexes failed to have their non-key attributes physically
truncated away in certain rare cases.  This led to physically larger
pivot tuples that contained useless non-key attribute values.  The
impact on users should be negligible, but this is still clearly a
regression (Postgres 11 supports INCLUDE indexes, and yet was not
affected).

The bug appeared in commit dd299df8, which introduced "true" suffix
truncation of key attributes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=E8pkV9ivRSFHtv812H5ckf8s1-yhx61_WrJbKccGcrQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 12-, where "true" suffix truncation was introduced.

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src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtutils.c modified +6 −1

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