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* Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian2025-01-01
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* Fix insertion of SP-GiST REDIRECT tuples during REINDEX CONCURRENTLY.Tom Lane2024-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reconstruction of an SP-GiST index by REINDEX CONCURRENTLY may insert some REDIRECT tuples. This will typically happen in a transaction that lacks an XID, which leads either to assertion failure in spgFormDeadTuple or to insertion of a REDIRECT tuple with zero xid. The latter's not good either, since eventually VACUUM will apply GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid() to the zero xid, resulting in either an assertion failure or a garbage answer. In practice, since REINDEX CONCURRENTLY locks out index scans till it's done, it doesn't matter whether it inserts REDIRECTs or PLACEHOLDERs; and likewise it doesn't matter how soon VACUUM reduces such a REDIRECT to a PLACEHOLDER. So in non-assert builds there's no observable problem here, other than perhaps a little index bloat. But it's not behaving as intended. To fix, remove the failing Assert in spgFormDeadTuple, acknowledging that we might sometimes insert a zero XID; and guard VACUUM's GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid() call with a test for valid XID, ensuring that we'll reduce such a REDIRECT the first time VACUUM sees it. (Versions before v14 use TransactionIdPrecedes here, which won't fail on zero xid, so they really have no bug at all in non-assert builds.) Another solution could be to not create REDIRECTs at all during REINDEX CONCURRENTLY, making the relevant code paths treat that case like index build (which likewise knows that no concurrent index scans can be happening). That would allow restoring the Assert in spgFormDeadTuple, but we'd still need the VACUUM change because redirection tuples with zero xid may be out there already. But there doesn't seem to be a nice way for spginsert() to tell that it's being called in REINDEX CONCURRENTLY without some API changes, so we'll leave that as a possible future improvement. In HEAD, also rename the SpGistState.myXid field to redirectXid, which seems less misleading (since it might not in fact be our transaction's XID) and is certainly less uninformatively generic. Per bug #18499 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18499-8a519c280f956480@postgresql.org
* Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian2024-01-03
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 12
* Add const to values and nulls argumentsPeter Eisentraut2023-10-10
| | | | | | | This excludes any changes that would change the external AM APIs. Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/14c31f4a-0347-0805-dce8-93a9072c05a5%40eisentraut.org
* Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian2023-01-02
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* Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian2022-01-07
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* Re-order pg_attribute columns to eliminate some padding space.Tom Lane2021-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that attcompression is just a char, there's a lot of wasted padding space after it. Move it into the group of char-wide columns to save a net of 4 bytes per pg_attribute entry. While we're at it, swap the order of attstorage and attalign to make for a more logical grouping of these columns. Also re-order actions in related code to match the new field ordering. This patch also fixes one outright bug: equalTupleDescs() failed to compare attcompression. That could, for example, cause relcache reload to fail to adopt a new value following a change. Michael Paquier and Tom Lane, per a gripe from Andres Freund. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210517204803.iyk5wwvwgtjcmc5w@alap3.anarazel.de
* Support INCLUDE'd columns in SP-GiST.Tom Lane2021-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Not much to say here: does what it says on the tin. We steal a previously-always-zero bit from the nextOffset field of leaf index tuples in order to track whether there is a nulls bitmap. Otherwise it works about like included columns in other index types. Pavel Borisov, reviewed by Andrey Borodin and Anastasia Lubennikova, and rather heavily editorialized on by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALT9ZEFi-vMp4faht9f9Junb1nO3NOSjhpxTmbm1UGLMsLqiEQ@mail.gmail.com
* Fix confusion in SP-GiST between attribute type and leaf storage type.Tom Lane2021-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to the documentation, the attType passed to the opclass config function (and also relied on by the core code) is the type of the heap column or expression being indexed. But what was actually being passed was the type stored for the index column. This made no difference for user-defined SP-GiST opclasses, because we weren't allowing the STORAGE clause of CREATE OPCLASS to be used, so the two types would be the same. But it's silly not to allow that, seeing that the built-in poly_ops opclass has a different value for opckeytype than opcintype, and that if you want to do lossy storage then the types must really be different. (Thus, user-defined opclasses doing lossy storage had to lie about what type is in the index.) Hence, remove the restriction, and make sure that we use the input column type not opckeytype where relevant. For reasons of backwards compatibility with existing user-defined opclasses, we can't quite insist that the specified leafType match the STORAGE clause; instead just add an amvalidate() warning if they don't match. Also fix some bugs that would only manifest when trying to return index entries when attType is different from attLeafType. It's not too surprising that these have not been reported, because the only usual reason for such a difference is to store the leaf value lossily, rendering index-only scans impossible. Add a src/test/modules module to exercise cases where attType is different from attLeafType and yet index-only scan is supported. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3728741.1617381471@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Rethink handling of pass-by-value leaf datums in SP-GiST.Tom Lane2021-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existing convention in SP-GiST is that any pass-by-value datatype is stored in Datum representation, i.e. it's of width sizeof(Datum) even when typlen is less than that. This is okay, or at least it's too late to change it, for prefix datums and node-label datums in inner (upper) tuples. But it's problematic for leaf datums, because we'd prefer those to be stored in Postgres' standard on-disk representation so that we can easily extend leaf tuples to carry additional "included" columns. I believe, however, that we can get away with just up and changing that. This would be an unacceptable on-disk-format break, but there are two big mitigating factors: 1. It seems quite unlikely that there are any SP-GiST opclasses out there that use pass-by-value leaf datatypes. Certainly none of the ones in core do, nor has codesearch.debian.net heard of any. Given what SP-GiST is good for, it's hard to conceive of a use-case where the leaf-level values would be both small and fixed-width. (As an example, if you wanted to index text values with the leaf level being just a byte, then every text string would have to be represented with one level of inner tuple per preceding byte, which would be horrendously space-inefficient and slow to access. You always want to use as few inner-tuple levels as possible, leaving as much as possible in the leaf values.) 2. Even granting that you have such an index, this change only breaks things on big-endian machines. On little-endian, the high order bytes of the Datum format will now just appear to be alignment padding space. So, change the code to store pass-by-value leaf datums in their usual on-disk form. Inner-tuple datums are not touched. This is extracted from a larger patch that intends to add support for "included" columns. I'm committing it separately for visibility in our commit logs. Pavel Borisov and Tom Lane, reviewed by Andrey Borodin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALT9ZEFi-vMp4faht9f9Junb1nO3NOSjhpxTmbm1UGLMsLqiEQ@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian2021-01-02
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* Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian2020-01-01
| | | | Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
* Refactor reloption handling for index AMs in-coreMichael Paquier2019-11-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reworks the reloption parsing and build of a couple of index AMs by creating new structures for each index AM's options. This split was already done for BRIN, GIN and GiST (which actually has a fillfactor parameter), but not for hash, B-tree and SPGiST which relied on StdRdOptions due to an overlap with the default option set. This saves a couple of bytes for rd_options in each relcache entry with indexes making use of relation options, and brings more consistency between all index AMs. While on it, add a couple of AssertMacro() calls to make sure that utility macros to grab values of reloptions are used with the expected index AM. Author: Nikolay Shaplov Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera, Dent John Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4127670.gFlpRb6XCm@x200m
* Improve handling of NULLs in KNN-GiST and KNN-SP-GiSTAlexander Korotkov2019-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit improves subject in two ways: * It removes ugliness of 02f90879e7, which stores distance values and null flags in two separate arrays after GISTSearchItem struct. Instead we pack both distance value and null flag in IndexOrderByDistance struct. Alignment overhead should be negligible, because we typically deal with at most few "col op const" expressions in ORDER BY clause. * It fixes handling of "col op NULL" expression in KNN-SP-GiST. Now, these expression are not passed to support functions, which can't deal with them. Instead, NULL result is implicitly assumed. It future we may decide to teach support functions to deal with NULL arguments, but current solution is bugfix suitable for backpatch. Reported-by: Nikita Glukhov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/826f57ee-afc7-8977-c44c-6111d18b02ec%40postgrespro.ru Author: Nikita Glukhov Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov Backpatch-through: 9.4
* Fix inconsistencies and typos in the treeMichael Paquier2019-07-22
| | | | | | | | This is numbered take 7, and addresses a set of issues with code comments, variable names and unreferenced variables. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dff75442-2468-f74f-568c-6006e141062f@gmail.com
* Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane2019-05-22
| | | | | | | | | Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
* Initial pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane2019-05-22
| | | | | | | | This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent. I thought it would be good to commit this separately, so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
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* Add support for nearest-neighbor (KNN) searches to SP-GiSTAlexander Korotkov2018-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, KNN searches were supported only by GiST. SP-GiST also capable to support them. This commit implements that support. SP-GiST scan stack is replaced with queue, which serves as stack if no ordering is specified. KNN support is provided for three SP-GIST opclasses: quad_point_ops, kd_point_ops and poly_ops (catversion is bumped). Some common parts between GiST and SP-GiST KNNs are extracted into separate functions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/570825e8-47d0-4732-2bf6-88d67d2d51c8%40postgrespro.ru Author: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov based on GSoC work by Vlad Sterzhanov Review: Andrey Borodin, Alexander Korotkov
* Post-feature-freeze pgindent run.Tom Lane2018-04-26
| | | | Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1523984266@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Prevent query-lifespan memory leakage of SP-GiST traversal values.Tom Lane2018-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original coding of the SP-GiST scan traversalValue feature (commit ccd6eb49a) arranged for traversal values to be stored in the query's main executor context. That's fine if there's only one index scan per query, but if there are many, we have a memory leak as successive scans create new traversal values. Fix it by creating a separate memory context for traversal values, which we can reset during spgrescan(). Back-patch to 9.6 where this code was introduced. In principle, adding the traversalCxt field to SpGistScanOpaqueData creates an ABI break in the back branches. But I (tgl) have little sympathy for extensions including spgist_private.h, so I'm not very worried about that. Alternatively we could stick the new field at the end of the struct in back branches, but that has its own downsides. Anton Dignös, reviewed by Alexander Kuzmenkov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALNdv1jb6y2Te-m8xHLxLX12RsBmZJ1f4hESX7J0HjgyOhA9eA@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
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* Add optional compression method to SP-GiSTTeodor Sigaev2017-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch allows to have different types of column and value stored in leaf tuples of SP-GiST. The main application of feature is to transform complex column type to simple indexed type or for truncating too long value, transformation could be lossy. Simple example: polygons are converted to their bounding boxes, this opclass follows. Authors: me, Heikki Linnakangas, Alexander Korotkov, Nikita Glukhov Reviewed-By: all authors + Darafei Praliaskouski Discussions: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5447B3FF.2080406@sigaev.ru https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54907069.1030506@sigaev.ru#54907069.1030506@sigaev.ru
* Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow index AMs to return either HeapTuple or IndexTuple format during IOS.Tom Lane2017-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, only IndexTuple format was supported for the output data of an index-only scan. This is fine for btree, which is just returning a verbatim index tuple anyway. It's not so fine for SP-GiST, which can return reconstructed data that's much larger than a page. To fix, extend the index AM API so that index-only scan data can be returned in either HeapTuple or IndexTuple format. There's other ways we could have done it, but this way avoids an API break for index AMs that aren't concerned with the issue, and it costs little except a couple more fields in IndexScanDescs. I changed both GiST and SP-GiST to use the HeapTuple method. I'm not very clear on whether GiST can reconstruct data that's too large for an IndexTuple, but that seems possible, and it's not much of a code change to fix. Per a complaint from Vik Fearing. Reviewed by Jason Li. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/49527f79-530d-0bfe-3dad-d183596afa92@2ndquadrant.fr
* Split index xlog headers from other private index headers.Robert Haas2017-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The xlog-specific headers need to be included in both frontend code - specifically, pg_waldump - and the backend, but the remainder of the private headers for each index are only needed by the backend. By splitting the xlog stuff out into separate headers, pg_waldump pulls in fewer backend headers, which is a good thing. Patch by me, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Andres Freund, per a complaint from Dilip Kumar. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ=F=GkxV0YEv-A8tb+AEGy_Qa7GSiJ8deBKFATnzfEug@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
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* Don't assume that 'char' is signed.Heikki Linnakangas2015-07-27
| | | | | | | On some platforms, notably ARM and PowerPC, 'char' is unsigned by default. This fixes an assertion failure at WAL replay on such platforms. Reported by Noah Misch. Backpatch to 9.5, where this was broken.
* Fix handling of all-zero pages in SP-GiST vacuum.Heikki Linnakangas2015-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | SP-GiST initialized an all-zeros page at vacuum, but that was not WAL-logged, which is not safe. You might get a torn page write, when it gets flushed to disk, and end-up with a half-initialized index page. To fix, leave it in the all-zeros state, and add it to the FSM. It will be initialized when reused. Also don't set the page-deleted flag when recycling an empty page. That was also not WAL-logged, and a torn write of that would cause the page to have an invalid checksum. Backpatch to 9.2, where SP-GiST indexes were added.
* Move BRIN page type to page's last two bytesAlvaro Herrera2015-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... which is the usual convention among AMs, so that pg_filedump and similar utilities can tell apart pages of different AMs. It was also the intent of the original code, but I failed to realize that alignment considerations would move the whole thing to the previous-to-last word in the page. The new definition of the associated macro makes surrounding code a bit leaner, too. Per note from Heikki at http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/546A16EF.9070005@vmware.com
* Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER in a bunch more places.Tom Lane2015-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace some bogus "x[1]" declarations with "x[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER]". Aside from being more self-documenting, this should help prevent bogus warnings from static code analyzers and perhaps compiler misoptimizations. This patch is just a down payment on eliminating the whole problem, but it gets rid of a lot of easy-to-fix cases. Note that the main problem with doing this is that one must no longer rely on computing sizeof(the containing struct), since the result would be compiler-dependent. Instead use offsetof(struct, lastfield). Autoconf also warns against spelling that offsetof(struct, lastfield[0]). Michael Paquier, review and additional fixes by me.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
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* Revamp the WAL record format.Heikki Linnakangas2014-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Each WAL record now carries information about the modified relation and block(s) in a standardized format. That makes it easier to write tools that need that information, like pg_rewind, prefetching the blocks to speed up recovery, etc. There's a whole new API for building WAL records, replacing the XLogRecData chains used previously. The new API consists of XLogRegister* functions, which are called for each buffer and chunk of data that is added to the record. The new API also gives more control over when a full-page image is written, by passing flags to the XLogRegisterBuffer function. This also simplifies the XLogReadBufferForRedo() calls. The function can dig the relation and block number from the WAL record, so they no longer need to be passed as arguments. For the convenience of redo routines, XLogReader now disects each WAL record after reading it, copying the main data part and the per-block data into MAXALIGNed buffers. The data chunks are not aligned within the WAL record, but the redo routines can assume that the pointers returned by XLogRecGet* functions are. Redo routines are now passed the XLogReaderState, which contains the record in the already-disected format, instead of the plain XLogRecord. The new record format also makes the fixed size XLogRecord header smaller, by removing the xl_len field. The length of the "main data" portion is now stored at the end of the WAL record, and there's a separate header after XLogRecord for it. The alignment padding at the end of XLogRecord is also removed. This compansates for the fact that the new format would otherwise be more bulky than the old format. Reviewed by Andres Freund, Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Fujii Masao.
* Move the backup-block logic from XLogInsert to a new file, xloginsert.c.Heikki Linnakangas2014-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | xlog.c is huge, this makes it a little bit smaller, which is nice. Functions related to putting together the WAL record are in xloginsert.c, and the lower level stuff for managing WAL buffers and such are in xlog.c. Also move the definition of XLogRecord to a separate header file. This causes churn in the #includes of all the files that write WAL records, and redo routines, but it avoids pulling in xlog.h into most places. Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund and Amit Kapila.
* Adjust SP-GiST WAL record formats to reduce alignment padding.Heikki Linnakangas2014-06-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The way the code was written, the padding was copied from uninitialized memory areas.. Because the structs are local variables in the code where the WAL records are constructed, making them larger and zeroing the padding bytes would not make the code very pretty, so rather than fixing this directly by zeroing out the padding bytes, it seems more clear to not try to align the tuples in the WAL records. The redo functions are taught to copy the tuple header to a local variable to avoid unaligned access. Stable-branches have the same problem, but we can't change the WAL format there, so fix in master only. Reading a few random extra bytes at the stack is harmless in practice, so it's not worth crafting a different back-patchable fix. Per reports from Kevin Grittner and Andres Freund, using clang static analyzer and Valgrind, respectively.
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Avoid deadlocks during insertion into SP-GiST indexes.Tom Lane2013-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | SP-GiST's original scheme for avoiding deadlocks during concurrent index insertions doesn't work, as per report from Hailong Li, and there isn't any evident way to make it work completely. We could possibly lock individual inner tuples instead of their whole pages, but preliminary experimentation suggests that the performance penalty would be huge. Instead, if we fail to get a buffer lock while descending the tree, just restart the tree descent altogether. We keep the old tuple positioning rules, though, in hopes of reducing the number of cases where this can happen. Teodor Sigaev, somewhat edited by Tom Lane
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Trim spgist_private.h inclusionAlvaro Herrera2012-09-05
| | | | It doesn't really need rel.h; relcache.h is enough.
* Fix race conditions associated with SPGiST redirection tuples.Tom Lane2012-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The correct test for whether a redirection tuple is removable is whether tuple's xid < RecentGlobalXmin, not OldestXmin; the previous coding failed to protect index searches being done in concurrent transactions that have no XID. This mirrors the recent fix in btree's page recycling logic made in commit d3abbbebe52eb1e59e621c880ad57df9d40d13f2. Also, WAL-log the newest XID of any removed redirection tuple on an index page, and apply ResolveRecoveryConflictWithSnapshot during InHotStandby WAL replay. This protects against concurrent Hot Standby transactions possibly needing to see the redirection tuple(s). Per my query of 2012-03-12 and subsequent discussion.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Teach SPGiST to store nulls and do whole-index scans.Tom Lane2012-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes the other major compatibility-breaking limitation of SPGiST, that it didn't store anything for null values of the indexed column, and so could not support whole-index scans or "x IS NULL" tests. The approach is to create a wholly separate search tree for the null entries, and use fixed "allTheSame" insertion and search rules when processing this tree, instead of calling the index opclass methods. This way the opclass methods do not need to worry about dealing with nulls. Catversion bump is for pg_am updates as well as the change in on-disk format of SPGiST indexes; there are some tweaks in SPGiST WAL records as well. Heavily rewritten version of a patch by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev. (The original also stored nulls separately, but it reused GIN code to do so; which required undesirable compromises in the on-disk format, and would likely lead to bugs due to the GIN code being required to work in two very different contexts.)
* Restructure SPGiST opclass interface API to support whole-index scans.Tom Lane2012-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original API definition was incapable of supporting whole-index scans because there was no way to invoke leaf-value reconstruction without checking any qual conditions. Also, it was inefficient for multiple-qual-condition scans because value reconstruction got done over again for each qual condition, and because other internal work in the consistent functions likewise had to be done for each qual. To fix these issues, pass the whole scankey array to the opclass consistent functions, instead of only letting them see one item at a time. (Essentially, the loop over scankey entries is now inside the consistent functions not outside them. This makes the consistent functions a bit more complicated, but not unreasonably so.) In itself this commit does nothing except save a few cycles in multiple-qual-condition index scans, since we can't support whole-index scans on SPGiST indexes until nulls are included in the index. However, I consider this a must-fix for 9.2 because once we release it will get very much harder to change the opclass API definition.
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* Rename updateNodeLink to spgUpdateNodeLink.Tom Lane2011-12-19
| | | | | | | On reflection, the original name seems way too generic for a global symbol. A quick check shows this is the only exported function name in SP-GiST that doesn't begin with "spg" or contain "SpGist", so the rest of them seem all right.
* Teach SP-GiST to do index-only scans.Tom Lane2011-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | Operator classes can specify whether or not they support this; this preserves the flexibility to use lossy representations within an index. In passing, move constant data about a given index into the rd_amcache cache area, instead of doing fresh lookups each time we start an index operation. This is mainly to try to make sure that spgcanreturn() has insignificant cost; I still don't have any proof that it matters for actual index accesses. Also, get rid of useless copying of FmgrInfo pointers; we can perfectly well use the relcache's versions in-place.
* Add SP-GiST (space-partitioned GiST) index access method.Tom Lane2011-12-17
SP-GiST is comparable to GiST in flexibility, but supports non-balanced partitioned search structures rather than balanced trees. As described at PGCon 2011, this new indexing structure can beat GiST in both index build time and query speed for search problems that it is well matched to. There are a number of areas that could still use improvement, but at this point the code seems committable. Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov, with considerable revisions by Tom Lane