Avoid statically allocating formatting.c's format string caches.
This eliminates circa 120KB of static data from Postgres' memory footprint. In some usage patterns that space will get allocated anyway, but in many processes it never will be allocated. We can improve matters further by allocating only as many cache entries as we actually use, rather than allocating the whole array on first use. However, to avoid wasting lots of space due to palloc's habit of rounding requests up to power-of-2 sizes, tweak the maximum cacheable format string length to make the struct sizes be powers of 2 or just less. The sizes I chose make the maximums a little bit less than they were before, but I doubt it matters much. While at it, rearrange struct FormatNode to avoid wasting quite so much padding space. This change actually halves the size of that struct on 64-bit machines. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
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