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Create a "sort support" interface API for faster sorting.

This patch creates an API whereby a btree index opclass can optionally
provide non-SQL-callable support functions for sorting.  In the initial
patch, we only use this to provide a directly-callable comparator function,
which can be invoked with a bit less overhead than the traditional
SQL-callable comparator.  While that should be of value in itself, the real
reason for doing this is to provide a datatype-extensible framework for
more aggressive optimizations, as in Peter Geoghegan's recent work.

Robert Haas and Tom Lane
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Tom Lane
2011-12-07 00:18:38 -05:00
parent d2a662182e
commit c6e3ac11b6
30 changed files with 869 additions and 421 deletions

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@@ -417,13 +417,18 @@ typedef struct xl_btree_newroot
/*
* When a new operator class is declared, we require that the user
* supply us with an amproc procedure for determining whether, for
* two keys a and b, a < b, a = b, or a > b. This routine must
* return < 0, 0, > 0, respectively, in these three cases. Since we
* only have one such proc in amproc, it's number 1.
* supply us with an amproc procedure (BTORDER_PROC) for determining
* whether, for two keys a and b, a < b, a = b, or a > b. This routine
* must return < 0, 0, > 0, respectively, in these three cases. (It must
* not return INT_MIN, since we may negate the result before using it.)
*
* To facilitate accelerated sorting, an operator class may choose to
* offer a second procedure (BTSORTSUPPORT_PROC). For full details, see
* src/include/utils/sortsupport.h.
*/
#define BTORDER_PROC 1
#define BTORDER_PROC 1
#define BTSORTSUPPORT_PROC 2
/*
* We need to be able to tell the difference between read and write