Minor cleanup of the BRIN parallel build code

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>

Commit: 6c63bcbf3ccf555f02a8fd8b2acaf01a6e94cb97
Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-12-30T22:15:04Z
Releases: 17.0
Minor cleanup of the BRIN parallel build code

Commit b437571714 added support for parallel builds for BRIN indexes,
using code similar to BTREE parallel builds, and also a new tuplesort
variant. This commit simplifies the new code in two ways:

* The "spool" grouping tuplesort and the heap/index is not necessary.
  The heap/index are available as separate arguments, causing confusion.
  So remove the spool, and use the tuplesort directly.

* The new tuplesort variant does not need the heap/index, as it sorts
  simply by the range block number, without accessing the tuple data.
  So simplify that too.

Initial report and patch by Ranier Vilela, further cleanup by me.

Author: Ranier Vilela
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAqD7f2i4iyEaAz-5o-bf6zXVX-AkNUBm-YjUXEemaEh6A%40mail.gmail.com

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