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Improve memory management for external sorts.

Introduce a new memory context which stores tuple data, and reset it at the end of each merge pass; this helps avoid memory fragmentation and, consequently, overallocation. Also, for the final merge patch, eliminate memory context chunk header overhead entirely by allocating all of the memory used for buffering tuples during the merge in a single chunk. Since this modestly increases the number of tuples we can store, grow the memtuples array a bit so that we're less likely to run short of slots there. Peter Geoghegan. Review and testing of patches in this series by Jeff Janes, Greg Stark, Mithun Cy, and me.

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