Remove the limit on the number of entries allowed in catcaches, and

remove the infrastructure needed to enforce the limit, ie, the global
LRU list of cache entries.  On small-to-middling databases this wins
because maintaining the LRU list is a waste of time.  On large databases
this wins because it's better to keep more cache entries (we assume
such users can afford to use some more per-backend memory than was
contemplated in the Berkeley-era catcache design).  This provides a
noticeable improvement in the speed of psql \d on a 10000-table
database, though it doesn't make it instantaneous.

While at it, use per-catcache settings for the number of hash buckets
per catcache, rather than the former one-size-fits-all value.  It's a
bit silly to be using the same number of hash buckets for, eg, pg_am
and pg_attribute.  The specific values I used might need some tuning,
but they seem to be in the right ballpark based on CATCACHE_STATS
results from the standard regression tests.

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