Add regression test case exercising the sorting path for hash index build.

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

Commit: 9563d5b5e4c75e676d73a45546bd47b77c2bd739
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2016-07-16T19:30:15Z
Releases: 9.6.0
Add regression test case exercising the sorting path for hash index build.

We've broken this code path at least twice in the past, so it's prudent
to have a test case that covers it.  To allow exercising the code path
without creating a very large (and slow to run) test case, redefine the
sort threshold to be bounded by maintenance_work_mem as well as the number
of available buffers.  While at it, fix an ancient oversight that when
building a temp index, the number of available buffers is not NBuffers but
NLocBuffer.  Also, if assertions are enabled, apply a direct test that the
sort actually does return the tuples in the expected order.

Peter Geoghegan

Patch: <CAM3SWZTBAo4hjbBd780+MrOKiKp_TMo1N3A0Rw9_im8gbD7fQA@mail.gmail.com>

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