Remove HASH_SEGMENT option

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: dde69621c3248c1c6e623a4f5baa182783ead681
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2026-03-31T13:45:28Z
Remove HASH_SEGMENT option

It's been unused forever. There's no urgency in removing it now, but
it was just something that caught my eye.

Aleksander Alekseev proposed this a long time ago [0], but Tom Lane
was worried about third-party extensions using it. I believe that's a
non-issue: I tried grepping through all extensions found on github and
didn't find any references to HASH_SEGMENT.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160418180711.55ac82c0@fujitsu

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

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PathChange+/−
src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c modified +22 −43
src/include/utils/hsearch.h modified +1 −3

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