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7 daysRename gist stratnum support functionPeter Eisentraut
Commit 7406ab623fe added a gist support function that we internally refer to by the symbol GIST_STRATNUM_PROC. This translated from "well-known" strategy numbers to opfamily-specific strategy numbers. However, we later (commit 630f9a43cec) changed this to fit into index-AM-level compare type mapping, so this function actually now maps from compare type to opfamily-specific strategy numbers. So this name is no longer fitting. Moreover, the index AM level also supports the opposite, a function to map from strategy number to compare type. This is currently not supported in gist, but one might wonder what this function is supposed to be called when it is added. This patch changes the naming of the gist-level functionality to be more in line with the index-AM-level functionality. This makes sense because these are essentially the same thing on different levels. This also changes the names of the externally visible functions that are provided for use as such a support function. Reviewed-by: Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/37ebb1d9-9036-485f-a215-e55435689917%40eisentraut.org
2025-02-21Drop opcintype from index AM strategy translation APIPeter Eisentraut
The type argument wasn't actually really necessary. It was a remnant of converting the API of the gist strategy translation from using opclass to using opfamily+opcintype (commits c09e5a6a016, 622f678c102). For looking up the gist translation function, we used the convention "amproclefttype = amprocrighttype = opclass's opcintype" (see pg_amproc.h). But each operator family should only have one translation function, and getting the right type for the lookup is sometimes cumbersome and fragile, so this is all unnecessarily complicated. To simplify this, change the gist stategy support procedure to take "any", "any" as argument. (This is arbitrary but seems intuitive. The alternative of using InvalidOid as argument(s) upsets various DDL commands, so it's not practical.) Then we don't need opcintype for the lookup, and we can remove it from all the API layers introduced by commit c09e5a6a016. This also adds some more documentation about the correct signature of the gist support function and adds more checks in gistvalidate(). This was previously underspecified. (It relied implicitly on convention mentioned above.) Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
2025-02-12Remove unnecessary (char *) casts [string]Peter Eisentraut
Remove (char *) casts around string functions where the arguments or result already have the right type and the cast is useless (or worse, potentially casts away a qualifier, but this doesn't appear to be the case here). Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd1fcedb-3492-4fc8-9e3e-74b97f2db6c7%40eisentraut.org
2025-01-15Change gist stratnum function to use CompareTypePeter Eisentraut
This changes commit 7406ab623fe in that the gist strategy number mapping support function is changed to use the CompareType enum as input, instead of the "well-known" RT*StrategyNumber strategy numbers. This is a bit cleaner, since you are not dealing with two sets of strategy numbers. Also, this will enable us to subsume this system into a more general system of using CompareType to define operator semantics across index methods. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
2024-09-17Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraintsPeter Eisentraut
Add WITHOUT OVERLAPS clause to PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints. These are backed by GiST indexes instead of B-tree indexes, since they are essentially exclusion constraints with = for the scalar parts of the key and && for the temporal part. (previously committed as 46a0cd4cefb, reverted by 46a0cd4cefb; the new part is this:) Because 'empty' && 'empty' is false, the temporal PK/UQ constraint allowed duplicates, which is confusing to users and breaks internal expectations. For instance, when GROUP BY checks functional dependencies on the PK, it allows selecting other columns from the table, but in the presence of duplicate keys you could get the value from any of their rows. So we need to forbid empties. This all means that at the moment we can only support ranges and multiranges for temporal PK/UQs, unlike the original patch (above). Documentation and tests for this are added. But this could conceivably be extended by introducing some more general support for the notion of "empty" for other types. Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com
2024-09-17Add stratnum GiST support functionPeter Eisentraut
This is support function 12 for the GiST AM and translates "well-known" RT*StrategyNumber values into whatever strategy number is used by the opclass (since no particular numbers are actually required). We will use this to support temporal PRIMARY KEY/UNIQUE/FOREIGN KEY/FOR PORTION OF functionality. This commit adds two implementations, one for internal GiST opclasses (just an identity function) and another for btree_gist opclasses. It updates btree_gist from 1.7 to 1.8, adding the support function for all its opclasses. (previously committed as 6db4598fcb8, reverted by 8aee330af55; this is essentially unchanged from those) Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com
2024-05-16Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keysPeter Eisentraut
This feature set did not handle empty ranges correctly, and it's now too late for PostgreSQL 17 to fix it. The following commits are reverted: 6db4598fcb8 Add stratnum GiST support function 46a0cd4cefb Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints 86232a49a43 Fix comment on gist_stratnum_btree 030e10ff1a3 Rename pg_constraint.conwithoutoverlaps to conperiod a88c800deb6 Use daterange and YMD in without_overlaps tests instead of tsrange. 5577a71fb0c Use half-open interval notation in without_overlaps tests 34768ee3616 Add temporal FOREIGN KEY contraints 482e108cd38 Add test for REPLICA IDENTITY with a temporal key c3db1f30cba doc: clarify PERIOD and WITHOUT OVERLAPS in CREATE TABLE 144c2ce0cc7 Fix ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE for temporal indexes Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d0b64a7a-dfe4-4b84-a906-c7dedfa40a3e@eisentraut.org
2024-04-19Doc: Remove mention of @ and ~ GiST operatorsDaniel Gustafsson
These operators were removed by 2f70fdb0644c in the v14 cycle but they were accidentally left in the table of build-in operator classes. Backpatch down to v14 where the operators where removed. Author: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> Reported-by: Colin Caine <cmcaine@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADwQTQbbr2UQ_fpbyc+8ay=RwEYgYk=TZxH3+RHDqAQfoG+EWA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: v14
2024-04-05docs: Merge separate chapters on built-in index AMs into one.Robert Haas
The documentation index is getting very long, which makes it hard to find things. Since these chapters are all very similar in structure and content, merging them is a natural way of reducing the size of the toplevel index. Rather than actually combining all of the SGML into a single file, keep one file per <sect1>, and add a glue file that includes all of them. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob7_uoYuS2=rVwpVXaRwP-UXz+++saYTC-BCZ42QzSNKQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-24Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraintsPeter Eisentraut
Add WITHOUT OVERLAPS clause to PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints. These are backed by GiST indexes instead of B-tree indexes, since they are essentially exclusion constraints with = for the scalar parts of the key and && for the temporal part. Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-19Add stratnum GiST support functionPeter Eisentraut
This is support function 12 for the GiST AM and translates "well-known" RT*StrategyNumber values into whatever strategy number is used by the opclass (since no particular numbers are actually required). We will use this to support temporal PRIMARY KEY/UNIQUE/FOREIGN KEY/FOR PORTION OF functionality. This commit adds two implementations, one for internal GiST opclasses (just an identity function) and another for btree_gist opclasses. It updates btree_gist from 1.7 to 1.8, adding the support function for all its opclasses. Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+renyUApHgSZF9-nd-a0+OPGharLQLO=mDHcY4_qQ0+noCUVg@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-04Doc: fix minor issues in GiST support function documentation.Tom Lane
gist.sgml and xindex.sgml hadn't been fully updated for the addition of a sortsupport support function (commit 16fa9b2b3). xindex.sgml also missed that the compress and decompress support functions are optional, an apparently far older oversight. In passing, fix gratuitous inconsistencies in wording and capitalization. Noted by E. Rogov. Back-patch to v14; the residual issues before that aren't significant enough to bother with. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163335322905.12519.5711557029494638051@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-07-16doc: Spell checkingPeter Eisentraut
2020-12-30Doc: fix up PDF build warnings from over-width table columns.Tom Lane
Addition of multirange info to tables 8.27 and 65.1 made them start throwing "exceed the available area" warnings in PDF docs builds. For 8.27, twiddling the existing column width hints was enough to fix this. For 65.1, I twiddled the widths a little, but to really fix it I had to insert a space after each comma in the table, to allow a line break to occur there. (This seemed easier to read and maintain than the alternative of inserting &zwsp; entities.) Per buildfarm.
2020-12-29Add support of multirange matching to the existing range GiST indexesAlexander Korotkov
6df7a9698b has introduced a set of operators between ranges and multiranges. Existing GiST indexes for ranges could easily support majority of them. This commit adds support for new operators to the existing range GiST indexes. New operators resides the same strategy numbers as existing ones. Appropriate check function is determined using the subtype. Catversion is bumped.
2020-11-23Rename the "point is strictly above/below point" comparison operators.Tom Lane
Historically these were called >^ and <^, but that is inconsistent with the similar box, polygon, and circle operators, which are named |>> and <<| respectively. Worse, the >^ and <^ names are used for *not* strict above/below tests for the box type. Hence, invent new operators following the more common naming. The old operators remain available for now, and are still accepted by the relevant index opclasses too. But there's a deprecation notice, so maybe we can get rid of them someday. Emre Hasegeli, reviewed by Pavel Borisov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24348.1587444160@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-12Re-allow testing of GiST buffered builds.Tom Lane
Commit 16fa9b2b3 broke the ability to reliably test GiST buffered builds, because it caused sorted builds to be done instead if sortsupport is available, regardless of any attempt to override that. While a would-be test case could try to work around that by choosing an opclass that has no sortsupport function, coverage would be silently lost the moment someone decides it'd be a good idea to add a sortsupport function. Hence, rearrange the logic in gistbuild() so that if "buffering = on" is specified in CREATE INDEX, we will use that method, sortsupport or no. Also document the interaction between sorting and the buffering parameter, as 16fa9b2b3 failed to do. (Note that in fact we still lack any test coverage of buffered builds, but this is a prerequisite to adding a non-fragile test.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3249980.1602532990@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-17Add support for building GiST index by sorting.Heikki Linnakangas
This adds a new optional support function to the GiST access method: sortsupport. If it is defined, the GiST index is built by sorting all data to the order defined by the sortsupport's comparator function, and packing the tuples in that order to GiST pages. This is similar to how B-tree index build works, and is much faster than inserting the tuples one by one. The resulting index is smaller too, because the pages are packed more tightly, upto 'fillfactor'. The normal build method works by splitting pages, which tends to lead to more wasted space. The quality of the resulting index depends on how good the opclass-defined sort order is. A good order preserves locality of the input data. As the first user of this facility, add 'sortsupport' function to the point_ops opclass. It sorts the points in Z-order (aka Morton Code), by interleaving the bits of the X and Y coordinates. Author: Andrey Borodin Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov, Thomas Munro Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1A36620E-CAD8-4267-9067-FB31385E7C0D%40yandex-team.ru
2020-08-28doc: Rework tables for built-in operator classes of index AMsMichael Paquier
The tables listing all the operator classes available for BRIN, GIN, GiST and SP-GiST had a confusing format where the same operator could be listed multiple times, for different data types. This improves the shape of these tables by adding the types associated to each operator, for their associated operator class. Each table included previously the data type that could be used for an operator class in an extra column. This is removed to reduce the width of the tables as this is now described within each operator. This also makes the tables fit better in the PDF documentation. Reported-by: osdba Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Bruce Momjian Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/38d55061.9604.173b32c60ec.Coremail.mailtch@163.com
2020-08-24doc: Fix some markups for support functions of index AMsMichael Paquier
All the documentation of index AMs has been using <replaceable> for local_relopts. This is a structure, so <structname> is a much better choice. Alexander has found the inconsistency for btree, while I have spotted the rest when applying the concept of consistency to the docs. Author: Alexander Lakhin, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200822133022.GC24782@paquier.xyz
2020-06-21Language fixes for docs related to opclass optionsAlexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200620232145.GB17995%40telsasoft.com Author: Justin Pryzby Backpatch-through: 13
2020-06-20Add documentation for opclass optionsAlexander Korotkov
911e7020770 added opclass options and adjusted documentation for each particular affected opclass. However, documentation for extendability was not adjusted. This commit adjusts documentation for interfaces of index AMs and opclasses. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmQnW6%2Bz5F9AW%2BSz%2BzEcEvXofTwh_A9J3%3D_WA-FBP0wYg%40mail.gmail.com Author: Alexander Korotkov Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
2020-06-11doc: remove xreflabels from commits 75fcdd2ae2 and 85af628da5Bruce Momjian
xreflabels prevent references to the chapter numbers of sections id's. It should only be used in specific cases. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8315c0ca-7758-8823-fcb6-f37f9413e6b6@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-05-15doc: add missing xreflabels to the main docs (not refs)Bruce Momjian
Add missing xreflabels for index types, geqo, libpq, spi, server-side languages, ecpg, and vaacuumlo. Backpatch-through: 9.5
2019-09-08doc: Clean up title case usePeter Eisentraut
Note: Following existing practice, titles of formalpara and step are not titlecased.
2019-08-19Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 11Michael Paquier
This fixes various typos in docs and comments, and removes some orphaned definitions. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5da8e325-c665-da95-21e0-c8a99ea61fbf@gmail.com
2019-07-16Fix inconsistencies and typos in the treeMichael Paquier
This is numbered take 7, and addresses a set of issues around: - Fixes for typos and incorrect reference names. - Removal of unneeded comments. - Removal of unreferenced functions and structures. - Fixes regarding variable name consistency. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10bfd4ac-3e7c-40ab-2b2e-355ed15495e8@gmail.com
2019-07-14Add support for <-> (box, point) operator to GiST box_opsAlexander Korotkov
Index-based calculation of this operator is exact. So, signature of gist_bbox_distance() function is changes so that caller is responsible for setting *recheck flag. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f71ba19d-d989-63b6-f04a-abf02ad9345d%40postgrespro.ru Author: Nikita Glukhov Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Alexander Korotkov
2019-07-08Fix inconsistencies in the codeMichael Paquier
This addresses a couple of issues in the code: - Typos and inconsistencies in comments and function declarations. - Removal of unreferenced function declarations. - Removal of unnecessary compile flags. - A cleanup error in regressplans.sh. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0c991fdf-2670-1997-c027-772a420c4604@gmail.com
2017-11-23Convert documentation to DocBook XMLPeter Eisentraut
Since some preparation work had already been done, the only source changes left were changing empty-element tags like <xref linkend="foo"> to <xref linkend="foo"/>, and changing the DOCTYPE. The source files are still named *.sgml, but they are actually XML files now. Renaming could be considered later. In the build system, the intermediate step to convert from SGML to XML is removed. Everything is build straight from the source files again. The OpenSP (or the old SP) package is no longer needed. The documentation toolchain instructions are updated and are much simpler now. Peter Eisentraut, Alexander Lakhin, Jürgen Purtz
2017-10-20Convert SGML IDs to lower casePeter Eisentraut
IDs in SGML are case insensitive, and we have accumulated a mix of upper and lower case IDs, including different variants of the same ID. In XML, these will be case sensitive, so we need to fix up those differences. Going to all lower case seems most straightforward, and the current build process already makes all anchors and lower case anyway during the SGML->XML conversion, so this doesn't create any difference in the output right now. A future XML-only build process would, however, maintain any mixed case ID spellings in the output, so that is another reason to clean this up beforehand. Author: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
2017-10-17Don't use SGML empty tagsPeter Eisentraut
For DocBook XML compatibility, don't use SGML empty tags (</>) anymore, replace by the full tag name. Add a warning option to catch future occurrences. Alexander Lakhin, Jürgen Purtz
2017-09-20Allow no-op GiST support functions to be omitted.Tom Lane
There are common use-cases in which the compress and/or decompress functions can be omitted, with the result being that we make no data transformation when storing or retrieving index values. Previously, you had to provide a no-op function anyway, but this patch allows such opclass support functions to be omitted. Furthermore, if the compress function is omitted, then the core code knows that the stored representation is the same as the original data. This means we can allow index-only scans without requiring a fetch function to be provided either. Previously you had to provide a no-op fetch function if you wanted IOS to work. This reportedly provides a small performance benefit in such cases, but IMO the real reason for doing it is just to reduce the amount of useless boilerplate code that has to be written for GiST opclasses. Andrey Borodin, reviewed by Dmitriy Sarafannikov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJEAwVELVx9gYscpE=Be6iJxvdW5unZ_LkcAaVNSeOwvdwtD=A@mail.gmail.com
2016-01-19Fix assorted inconsistencies in GiST opclass support function declarations.Tom Lane
The conventions specified by the GiST SGML documentation were widely ignored. For example, the strategy-number argument for "consistent" and "distance" functions is specified to be a smallint, but most of the built-in support functions declared it as an integer, and for that matter the core code passed it using Int32GetDatum not Int16GetDatum. None of that makes any real difference at runtime, but it's quite confusing for newcomers to the code, and it makes it very hard to write an amvalidate() function that checks support function signatures. So let's try to instill some consistency here. Another similar issue is that the "query" argument is not of a single well-defined type, but could have different types depending on the strategy (corresponding to search operators with different righthand-side argument types). Some of the functions threw up their hands and declared the query argument as being of "internal" type, which surely isn't right ("any" would have been more appropriate); but the majority position seemed to be to declare it as being of the indexed data type, corresponding to a search operator with both input types the same. So I've specified a convention that that's what to do always. Also, the result of the "union" support function actually must be of the index's storage type, but the documentation suggested declaring it to return "internal", and some of the functions followed that. Standardize on telling the truth, instead. Similarly, standardize on declaring the "same" function's inputs as being of the storage type, not "internal". Also, somebody had forgotten to add the "recheck" argument to both the documentation of the "distance" support function and all of their SQL declarations, even though the C code was happily using that argument. Clean that up too. Fix up some other omissions in the docs too, such as documenting that union's second input argument is vestigial. So far as the errors in core function declarations go, we can just fix pg_proc.h and bump catversion. Adjusting the erroneous declarations in contrib modules is more debatable: in principle any change in those scripts should involve an extension version bump, which is a pain. However, since these changes are purely cosmetic and make no functional difference, I think we can get away without doing that.
2015-05-24Remove no-longer-required function declarations.Tom Lane
Remove a bunch of "extern Datum foo(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);" declarations that are no longer needed now that PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(foo) provides that. Some of these were evidently missed in commit e7128e8dbb305059, but others were cargo-culted in in code added since then. Possibly that can be blamed in part on the fact that we'd not fixed relevant documentation examples, which I've now done.
2015-05-23Still more fixes for lossy-GiST-distance-functions patch.Tom Lane
Fix confusion in documentation, substantial memory leakage if float8 or float4 are pass-by-reference, and assorted comments that were obsoleted by commit 98edd617f3b62a02cb2df9b418fcc4ece45c7ec0.
2015-05-15docs: consistently uppercase index method and add spacingBruce Momjian
Consistently uppercase index method names, e.g. GIN, and add space after the index method name and the parentheses enclosing the column names.
2015-05-15Fix datatype confusion with the new lossy GiST distance functions.Heikki Linnakangas
We can only support a lossy distance function when the distance function's datatype is comparable with the original ordering operator's datatype. The distance function always returns a float8, so we are limited to float8, and float4 (by a hard-coded cast of the float8 to float4). In light of this limitation, it seems like a good idea to have a separate 'recheck' flag for the ORDER BY expressions, so that if you have a non-lossy distance function, it still works with lossy quals. There are cases like that with the build-in or contrib opclasses, but it's plausible. There was a hidden assumption that the ORDER BY values returned by GiST match the original ordering operator's return type, but there are plenty of examples where that's not true, e.g. in btree_gist and pg_trgm. As long as the distance function is not lossy, we can tolerate that and just not return the distance to the executor (or rather, always return NULL). The executor doesn't need the distances if there are no lossy results. There was another little bug: the recheck variable was not initialized before calling the distance function. That revealed the bigger issue, as the executor tried to reorder tuples that didn't need reordering, and that failed because of the datatype mismatch.
2015-05-15Allow GiST distance function to return merely a lower-bound.Heikki Linnakangas
The distance function can now set *recheck = false, like index quals. The executor will then re-check the ORDER BY expressions, and use a queue to reorder the results on the fly. This makes it possible to do kNN-searches on polygons and circles, which don't store the exact value in the index, but just a bounding box. Alexander Korotkov and me
2015-03-26Add support for index-only scans in GiST.Heikki Linnakangas
This adds a new GiST opclass method, 'fetch', which is used to reconstruct the original Datum from the value stored in the index. Also, the 'canreturn' index AM interface function gains a new 'attno' argument. That makes it possible to use index-only scans on a multi-column index where some of the opclasses support index-only scans but some do not. This patch adds support in the box and point opclasses. Other opclasses can added later as follow-on patches (btree_gist would be particularly interesting). Anastasia Lubennikova, with additional fixes and modifications by me.
2015-01-28Remove dead NULL-pointer checks in GiST code.Heikki Linnakangas
gist_poly_compress() and gist_circle_compress() checked for a NULL-pointer key argument, but that was dead code; the gist code never passes a NULL-pointer to the "compress" method. This commit also removes a documentation note added in commit a0a3883, about doing NULL-pointer checks in the "compress" method. It was added based on the fact that some implementations were doing NULL-pointer checks, but those checks were unnecessary in the first place. The NULL-pointer check in gbt_var_same() function was also unnecessary. The arguments to the "same" method come from the "compress", "union", or "picksplit" methods, but none of them return a NULL pointer. None of this is to be confused with SQL NULL values. Those are dealt with by the gist machinery, and are never passed to the GiST opclass methods. Michael Paquier
2014-11-11Add GUC and storage parameter to set the maximum size of GIN pending list.Fujii Masao
Previously the maximum size of GIN pending list was controlled only by work_mem. But the reasonable value of work_mem and the reasonable size of the list are basically not the same, so it was not appropriate to control both of them by only one GUC, i.e., work_mem. This commit separates new GUC, pending_list_cleanup_size, from work_mem to allow users to control only the size of the list. Also this commit adds pending_list_cleanup_size as new storage parameter to allow users to specify the size of the list per index. This is useful, for example, when users want to increase the size of the list only for the GIN index which can be updated heavily, and decrease it otherwise. Reviewed by Etsuro Fujita.
2014-04-08Add an in-core GiST index opclass for inet/cidr types.Tom Lane
This operator class can accelerate subnet/supernet tests as well as btree-equivalent ordered comparisons. It also handles a new network operator inet && inet (overlaps, a/k/a "is supernet or subnet of"), which is expected to be useful in exclusion constraints. Ideally this opclass would be the default for GiST with inet/cidr data, but we can't mark it that way until we figure out how to do a more or less graceful transition from the current situation, in which the really-completely-bogus inet/cidr opclasses in contrib/btree_gist are marked as default. Having the opclass in core and not default is better than not having it at all, though. While at it, add new documentation sections to allow us to officially document GiST/GIN/SP-GiST opclasses, something there was never a clear place to do before. I filled these in with some simple tables listing the existing opclasses and the operators they support, but there's certainly scope to put more information there. Emre Hasegeli, reviewed by Andreas Karlsson, further hacking by me
2012-06-07Documentation spell and markup checkingPeter Eisentraut
2011-09-30Support GiST index support functions that want to cache data across calls.Tom Lane
pg_trgm was already doing this unofficially, but the implementation hadn't been thought through very well and leaked memory. Restructure the core GiST code so that it actually works, and document it. Ordinarily this would have required an extra memory context creation/destruction for each GiST index search, but I was able to avoid that in the normal case of a non-rescanned search by finessing the handling of the RBTree. It used to have its own context always, but now shares a context with the scan-lifespan data structures, unless there is more than one rescan call. This should make the added overhead unnoticeable in typical cases.
2011-09-08Buffering GiST index build algorithm.Heikki Linnakangas
When building a GiST index that doesn't fit in cache, buffers are attached to some internal nodes in the index. This speeds up the build by avoiding random I/O that would otherwise be needed to traverse all the way down the tree to the find right leaf page for tuple. Alexander Korotkov
2011-05-31Protect GIST logic that assumes penalty values can't be negative.Tom Lane
Apparently sane-looking penalty code might return small negative values, for example because of roundoff error. This will confuse places like gistchoose(). Prevent problems by clamping negative penalty values to zero. (Just to be really sure, I also made it force NaNs to zero.) Back-patch to all supported branches. Alexander Korotkov
2010-12-23Rewrite the GiST insertion logic so that we don't need the post-recoveryHeikki Linnakangas
cleanup stage to finish incomplete inserts or splits anymore. There was two reasons for the cleanup step: 1. When a new tuple was inserted to a leaf page, the downlink in the parent needed to be updated to contain (ie. to be consistent with) the new key. Updating the parent in turn might require recursively updating the parent of the parent. We now handle that by updating the parent while traversing down the tree, so that when we insert the leaf tuple, all the parents are already consistent with the new key, and the tree is consistent at every step. 2. When a page is split, we need to insert the downlink for the new right page(s), and update the downlink for the original page to not include keys that moved to the right page(s). We now handle that by setting a new flag, F_FOLLOW_RIGHT, on the non-rightmost pages in the split. When that flag is set, scans always follow the rightlink, regardless of the NSN mechanism used to detect concurrent page splits. That way the tree is consistent right after split, even though the downlink is still missing. This is very similar to the way B-tree splits are handled. When the downlink is inserted in the parent, the flag is cleared. To keep the insertion algorithm simple, when an insertion sees an incomplete split, indicated by the F_FOLLOW_RIGHT flag, it finishes the split before doing anything else. These changes allow removing the whole "invalid tuple" mechanism, but I retained the scan code to still follow invalid tuples correctly. While we don't create any such tuples anymore, we want to handle them gracefully in case you pg_upgrade a GiST index that has them. If we encounter any on an insert, though, we just throw an error saying that you need to REINDEX. The issue that got me into doing this is that if you did a checkpoint while an insert or split was in progress, and the checkpoint finishes quickly so that there is no WAL record related to the insert between RedoRecPtr and the checkpoint record, recovery from that checkpoint would not know to finish the incomplete insert. IOW, we have the same issue we solved with the rm_safe_restartpoint mechanism during normal operation too. It's highly unlikely to happen in practice, and this fix is far too large to backpatch, so we're just going to live with in previous versions, but this refactoring fixes it going forward. With this patch, you don't get the annoying 'index "FOO" needs VACUUM or REINDEX to finish crash recovery' notices anymore if you crash at an unfortunate moment.
2010-12-04Add external documentation for KNNGIST.Tom Lane
2010-09-20Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander