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    Improve aset.c's space management in contexts with small maxBlockSize. · 6755558b
    Tom Lane authored
    The previous coding would allow requests up to half of maxBlockSize to be
    treated as "chunks", but when that actually did happen, we'd waste nearly
    half of the space in the malloc block containing the chunk, if no smaller
    requests came along to fill it.  Avoid this scenario by limiting the
    maximum size of a chunk to 1/8th maxBlockSize, so that we can waste no more
    than 1/8th of the allocated space.  This will not change the behavior at
    all for the default context size parameters (with large maxBlockSize),
    but it will change the behavior when using ALLOCSET_SMALL_MAXSIZE.
    
    In particular, there's no longer a need for spell.c to be overly concerned
    about the request size parameters it uses, so remove a rather unhelpful
    comment about that.
    
    Merlin Moncure, per an idea of Tom Lane's
    6755558b
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