Save a few bytes by removing useless last argument to SearchCatCacheList.
There's never any value in giving a fully specified cache key to SearchCatCacheList: you might as well call SearchCatCache instead, since there could be only one match. So the maximum useful number of key arguments is one less than the supported number of key columns. We might as well remove the useless extra argument and save some few bytes per call site, as well as a cycle or so per call. I believe the reason it was coded like this is that originally, callers had to write out all the dummy arguments in each call, and so it seemed less confusing if SearchCatCache and SearchCatCacheList took the same number of key arguments. But since commit e26c539e, callers only write their live arguments explicitly, making that a non-factor; and there's surely been enough time for third-party modules to adapt to that coding style. So this is only an ABI break not an API break for callers. Per discussion with Oliver Ford, this might also make it less confusing how to use SearchCatCacheList correctly. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27788.1517069693@sss.pgh.pa.us
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