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    Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations. · ac88d296
    Amit Kapila authored
    Previously, all heaps had FSMs. For very small tables, this means that the
    FSM took up more space than the heap did. This is wasteful, so now we
    refrain from creating the FSM for heaps with 4 pages or fewer. If the last
    known target block has insufficient space, we still try to insert into some
    other page before giving up and extending the relation, since doing
    otherwise leads to table bloat. Testing showed that trying every page
    penalized performance slightly, so we compromise and try every other page.
    This way, we visit at most two pages. Any pages with wasted free space
    become visible at next relation extension, so we still control table bloat.
    As a bonus, directly attempting one or two pages can even be faster than
    consulting the FSM would have been.
    
    Once the FSM is created for a heap we don't remove it even if somebody
    deletes all the rows from the corresponding relation.  We don't think it is
    a useful optimization as it is quite likely that relation will again grow
    to the same size.
    
    Author: John Naylor with design inputs and some code contribution by Amit Kapila
    Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
    Tested-by: Mithun C Y
    Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJVSVGWvB13PzpbLEecFuGFc5V2fsO736BsdTakPiPAcdMM5tQ@mail.gmail.com
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