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Rearrange the implementation of index-only scans.

This commit changes index-only scans so that data is read directly from the
index tuple without first generating a faux heap tuple.  The only immediate
benefit is that indexes on system columns (such as OID) can be used in
index-only scans, but this is necessary infrastructure if we are ever to
support index-only scans on expression indexes.  The executor is now ready
for that, though the planner still needs substantial work to recognize
the possibility.

To do this, Vars in index-only plan nodes have to refer to index columns
not heap columns.  I introduced a new special varno, INDEX_VAR, to mark
such Vars to avoid confusion.  (In passing, this commit renames the two
existing special varnos to OUTER_VAR and INNER_VAR.)  This allows
ruleutils.c to handle them with logic similar to what we use for subplan
reference Vars.

Since index-only scans are now fundamentally different from regular
indexscans so far as their expression subtrees are concerned, I also chose
to change them to have their own plan node type (and hence, their own
executor source file).
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2011-10-11 14:20:06 -04:00
parent fa351d5a0d
commit a0185461dd
34 changed files with 1312 additions and 419 deletions

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@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@ extern void ExecIndexMarkPos(IndexScanState *node);
extern void ExecIndexRestrPos(IndexScanState *node);
extern void ExecReScanIndexScan(IndexScanState *node);
/* routines exported to share code with nodeBitmapIndexscan.c */
/*
* These routines are exported to share code with nodeIndexonlyscan.c and
* nodeBitmapIndexscan.c
*/
extern void ExecIndexBuildScanKeys(PlanState *planstate, Relation index,
Index scanrelid, List *quals, bool isorderby,
List *quals, bool isorderby,
ScanKey *scanKeys, int *numScanKeys,
IndexRuntimeKeyInfo **runtimeKeys, int *numRuntimeKeys,
IndexArrayKeyInfo **arrayKeys, int *numArrayKeys);