The idea is relatively simple - encode prefixes of collated strings as
integers and use them to compute extents' ranges. Then we can eliminate
extents with strings.
The actual patch does have all the code there but miss one important
step: we do not keep collation index, we keep charset index. Because of
this, some of the tests in the bugfix suite fail and thus main
functionality is turned off.
The reason of this patch to be put into PR at all is that it contains
changes that made CHAR/VARCHAR columns unsigned. This change is needed in
vectorization work.
* Fix clang warnings
* Remove vim tab guides
* initialize variables
* 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying as many bytes from a string as its length
* Fix ISO C++17 does not allow 'register' storage class specifier for outdated bison
* chars are unsigned on ARM, having if (ival < 0) always false
* chars are unsigned by default on ARM and comparison with -1 if always true
data types TEXT, CHAR, VARCHAR, FLOAT and DOUBLE are not yet supported by vectorized path
This patch introduces an example for Google benchmarking suite to measure a perf diff
b/w legacy scan/filtering code and the templated version
2. Set Decimal precision in SimpleColumn::evaluate().
3. Add support for int128_t in ConstantColumn.
4. Set IDB_Decimal::s128Value in buildDecimalColumn().
5. Use width 16 as first if predicate for branching based on decimal width.
