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|  | currentMarkData from IndexScanDesc to the opaque structs for the
AMs that need this information (currently gist and hash).
Patch from Heikki Linnakangas, fixes by Neil Conway. | 
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|  | * new split algorithm (as proposed in http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg00254.php)
  * possible call pickSplit() for second and below columns
  * add spl_(l|r)datum_exists to GIST_SPLITVEC -
    pickSplit should check its values to use already defined
    spl_(l|r)datum for splitting. pickSplit should set
    spl_(l|r)datum_exists to 'false' (if they was 'true') to
    signal to caller about using spl_(l|r)datum.
  * support for old pickSplit(): not very optimal
    but correct split
* remove 'bytes' field from GISTENTRY: in any case size of
  value is defined by it's type.
* split GIST_SPLITVEC to two structures: one for using in picksplit
  and second - for internal use.
* some code refactoring
* support of subsplit to rtree opclasses
TODO: add support of subsplit to contrib modules | 
|  | * some refactoring and simplify code int gistutil.c and gist.c
* now in some cases it can be called used-defined
  picksplit method for non-first column in index, but here
	is a place to do more.
* small fix of docs related to support NULL. | 
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|  | isn't being used anywhere anymore, and there seems no point in a generic
index_keytest() routine when two out of three remaining access methods
aren't using it.  Also, add a comment documenting a convention for
letting access methods define private flag bits in ScanKey sk_flags.
There are no such flags at the moment but I'm thinking about changing
btree's handling of "required keys" to use flag bits in the keys
rather than a count of required key positions.  Also, if some AM did
still want SK_NEGATE then it would be reasonable to treat it as a private
flag bit. | 
|  | comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib
directory.  Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names
in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for
indenting).
Backpatch to 8.1.X. | 
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|  | generated by bitmap index scans.  Along the way, simplify and speed up
the code for counting sequential and index scans; it was both confusing
and inefficient to be taking care of that in the per-tuple loops, IMHO.
initdb forced because of internal changes in pg_stat view definitions. | 
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|  | - full concurrency for insert/update/select/vacuum:
        - select and vacuum never locks more than one page simultaneously
        - select (gettuple) hasn't any lock across it's calls
        - insert never locks more than two page simultaneously:
                - during search of leaf to insert it locks only one page
                  simultaneously
                - while walk upward to the root it locked only parent (may be
                  non-direct parent) and child. One of them X-lock, another may
                  be S- or X-lock
- 'vacuum full' locks index
- improve gistgetmulti
- simplify XLOG records
Fix bug in index_beginscan_internal: LockRelation may clean
  rd_aminfo structure, so move GET_REL_PROCEDURE after LockRelation | 
|  | 2. improve vacuum for gist
   - use FSM
   - full vacuum:
      - reforms parent tuple if it's needed
        ( tuples was deleted on child page or parent tuple remains invalid
          after crash recovery )
      - truncate index file if possible
3. fixes bugs and mistakes | 
|  | recovery after crash (power loss etc) it may say that it can't restore
index and index should be reindexed.
Some refactoring code. | 
|  | external projects, we should be careful about what parts of the GiST
API are considered implementation details, and which are part of the
public API. Therefore, I've moved internal-only declarations into
gist_private.h -- future backward-incompatible changes to gist.h should
be made with care, to avoid needlessly breaking external GiST extensions.
Also did some related header cleanup: remove some unnecessary #includes
from gist.h, and remove some unused definitions: isAttByVal(), _gistdump(),
and GISTNStrategies. | 
|  | - make sure we always invoke user-supplied GiST methods in a short-lived
  memory context. This means the backend isn't exposed to any memory leaks
  that be in those methods (in fact, it is probably a net loss for most
  GiST methods to bother manually freeing memory now). This also means
  we can do away with a lot of ugly manual memory management in the
  GiST code itself.
- keep the current page of a GiST index scan pinned, rather than doing a
  ReadBuffer() for each tuple produced by the scan. Since ReadBuffer() is
  expensive, this is a perf. win
- implement dead tuple killing for GiST indexes (which is easy to do, now
  that we keep a pin on the current scan page). Now all the builtin indexes
  implement dead tuple killing.
- cleanup a lot of ugly code in GiST | 
|  | access: define new index access method functions 'amgetmulti' that can
fetch multiple TIDs per call.  (The functions exist but are totally
untested as yet.)  Since I was modifying pg_am anyway, remove the
no-longer-needed 'rel' parameter from amcostestimate functions, and
also remove the vestigial amowner column that was creating useless
work for Alvaro's shared-object-dependencies project.
Initdb forced due to changes in pg_am. | 
|  | ReleaseAndReadBuffer during GIST index searches.  We already did this
in btree and rtree, might as well do it here too. | 
|  | Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ... | 
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|  | pointer type when it is not necessary to do so.
For future reference, casting NULL to a pointer type is only necessary
when (a) invoking a function AND either (b) the function has no prototype
OR (c) the function is a varargs function. | 
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|  | pghackers proposal of 8-Nov.  All the existing cross-type comparison
operators (int2/int4/int8 and float4/float8) have appropriate support.
The original proposal of storing the right-hand-side datatype as part of
the primary key for pg_amop and pg_amproc got modified a bit in the event;
it is easier to store zero as the 'default' case and only store a nonzero
when the operator is actually cross-type.  Along the way, remove the
long-since-defunct bigbox_ops operator class. | 
|  | Remove the 'strategy map' code, which was a large amount of mechanism
that no longer had any use except reverse-mapping from procedure OID to
strategy number.  Passing the strategy number to the index AM in the
first place is simpler and faster.
This is a preliminary step in planned support for cross-datatype index
operations.  I'm committing it now since the ScanKeyEntryInitialize()
API change touches quite a lot of files, and I want to commit those
changes before the tree drifts under me. | 
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|  | yesterday's proposal to pghackers.  Also remove unnecessary parameters
to heap_beginscan, heap_rescan.  I modified pg_proc.h to reflect the
new numbers of parameters for the AM interface routines, but did not
force an initdb because nothing actually looks at those fields. | 
|  | "bad smell" in that code. Stuff like function parameters that aren't
used, typos in the comments, comparison between signed and unsigned
ints, etc.
Attached is a pretty trivial patch; it compiles, but beyond that
completely untested. Unless anyone sees any problems, please apply for
7.3.
Neil Conway | 
|  | tests pass. | 
|  | for haskeytype).  Update GiST contrib modules too.  Add linear-time split
algorithm for R-tree GiST opclass.
From Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev. | 
|  | (as proposed in http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1028327)
2. support for 'pass-by-value' arguments - to test this
   we used special opclass for int4 with values in range [0-2^15]
   More testing will be done after resolving problem with
   index_formtuple and implementation of B-tree using GiST
3. small patch to contrib modules (seg,cube,rtree_gist,intarray) -
   mark functions as 'isstrict' where needed.
Oleg Bartunov | 
|  | and Teodor Sigaev).  Declare key values as Datum where appropriate,
rather than char* (Tom Lane). | 
|  | number of strategies supported by an index AM.  Add missing copyright
notices and CVS $Header$ markers to GIST source files. | 
|  | with many NULLs ( inserting of NULL into indexed field cause
ERROR: MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size)
As a workaround 'vacuum analyze' could be used.
This patch resolves the problem, please upply to 7.1.1 sources and
current cvs tree.
Oleg Bartunov | 
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|  | functions that take pass-by-value datatypes.  Should be ready for
port testing ... | 
|  | fmgr_faddr() in favor of new-style calls.  Lots of cleanup of
sloppy casts to use XXXGetDatum and DatumGetXXX ... | 
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