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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2017-02-27 17:20:34 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2017-02-27 17:20:34 -0500
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Allow index AMs to return either HeapTuple or IndexTuple format during IOS.
Previously, only IndexTuple format was supported for the output data of an index-only scan. This is fine for btree, which is just returning a verbatim index tuple anyway. It's not so fine for SP-GiST, which can return reconstructed data that's much larger than a page. To fix, extend the index AM API so that index-only scan data can be returned in either HeapTuple or IndexTuple format. There's other ways we could have done it, but this way avoids an API break for index AMs that aren't concerned with the issue, and it costs little except a couple more fields in IndexScanDescs. I changed both GiST and SP-GiST to use the HeapTuple method. I'm not very clear on whether GiST can reconstruct data that's too large for an IndexTuple, but that seems possible, and it's not much of a code change to fix. Per a complaint from Vik Fearing. Reviewed by Jason Li. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/49527f79-530d-0bfe-3dad-d183596afa92@2ndquadrant.fr
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/access/gist_private.h')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/access/gist_private.h b/src/include/access/gist_private.h
index 5b3303056b0..1ad4ed6da75 100644
--- a/src/include/access/gist_private.h
+++ b/src/include/access/gist_private.h
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ typedef struct GISTSearchHeapItem
ItemPointerData heapPtr;
bool recheck; /* T if quals must be rechecked */
bool recheckDistances; /* T if distances must be rechecked */
- IndexTuple ftup; /* data fetched back from the index, used in
+ HeapTuple recontup; /* data reconstructed from the index, used in
* index-only scans */
OffsetNumber offnum; /* track offset in page to mark tuple as
* LP_DEAD */
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ extern void gistMakeUnionItVec(GISTSTATE *giststate, IndexTuple *itvec, int len,
extern bool gistKeyIsEQ(GISTSTATE *giststate, int attno, Datum a, Datum b);
extern void gistDeCompressAtt(GISTSTATE *giststate, Relation r, IndexTuple tuple, Page p,
OffsetNumber o, GISTENTRY *attdata, bool *isnull);
-extern IndexTuple gistFetchTuple(GISTSTATE *giststate, Relation r,
+extern HeapTuple gistFetchTuple(GISTSTATE *giststate, Relation r,
IndexTuple tuple);
extern void gistMakeUnionKey(GISTSTATE *giststate, int attno,
GISTENTRY *entry1, bool isnull1,