This patch adds enough support so that cross engines joins with blob
columns in the foreign engines will work. The modifications are as
follows:
* Add CrossEngine support for non-NULL-terminated (binary) data
* Add row data support for blobs (similar to varbinary)
* Add engine support for writing out blob data correctly to the storage
engine API
* Re-enable blob support in the engine plugin
This fix improves the performance of ExeMgr by doing the following:
* Significantly reduces the amount of time the xml configuration is
scanned
* Uses a much faster way to determine the CPU core count
* Reduces the amount of times certain allocations are executed
* Rowgroup pre-allocates vectors for 1024 rows
This improves performance for the first query of a connection and the
performance for smaller result sets. It may well improve performance in
other areas too.
It is possible to have a VARCHAR column that isn't NUL terminated, an
example of this is a union of two CHAR columns. So the length should
always act as a terminator when there is no NUL.
Remove generated Makefiles
Update Makefile.am to specify RPATH as a subdirectory of --prefix
Remove configure artifacts such as config.log, config.h, etc
Remove unneeded backup files (files ending in tilde ~)
