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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c71
-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/gist/gistscan.c75
-rw-r--r--src/backend/lib/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--src/backend/lib/README24
-rw-r--r--src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c274
-rw-r--r--src/include/access/gist_private.h25
-rw-r--r--src/include/lib/pairingheap.h72
7 files changed, 409 insertions, 134 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c b/src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c
index 7a8692b5087..e5eb6f66a49 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include "access/relscan.h"
#include "miscadmin.h"
#include "pgstat.h"
+#include "lib/pairingheap.h"
#include "utils/builtins.h"
#include "utils/memutils.h"
#include "utils/rel.h"
@@ -243,8 +244,6 @@ gistScanPage(IndexScanDesc scan, GISTSearchItem *pageItem, double *myDistances,
GISTPageOpaque opaque;
OffsetNumber maxoff;
OffsetNumber i;
- GISTSearchTreeItem *tmpItem = so->tmpTreeItem;
- bool isNew;
MemoryContext oldcxt;
Assert(!GISTSearchItemIsHeap(*pageItem));
@@ -275,18 +274,15 @@ gistScanPage(IndexScanDesc scan, GISTSearchItem *pageItem, double *myDistances,
oldcxt = MemoryContextSwitchTo(so->queueCxt);
/* Create new GISTSearchItem for the right sibling index page */
- item = palloc(sizeof(GISTSearchItem));
- item->next = NULL;
+ item = palloc(SizeOfGISTSearchItem(scan->numberOfOrderBys));
item->blkno = opaque->rightlink;
item->data.parentlsn = pageItem->data.parentlsn;
/* Insert it into the queue using same distances as for this page */
- tmpItem->head = item;
- tmpItem->lastHeap = NULL;
- memcpy(tmpItem->distances, myDistances,
+ memcpy(item->distances, myDistances,
sizeof(double) * scan->numberOfOrderBys);
- (void) rb_insert(so->queue, (RBNode *) tmpItem, &isNew);
+ pairingheap_add(so->queue, &item->phNode);
MemoryContextSwitchTo(oldcxt);
}
@@ -348,8 +344,7 @@ gistScanPage(IndexScanDesc scan, GISTSearchItem *pageItem, double *myDistances,
oldcxt = MemoryContextSwitchTo(so->queueCxt);
/* Create new GISTSearchItem for this item */
- item = palloc(sizeof(GISTSearchItem));
- item->next = NULL;
+ item = palloc(SizeOfGISTSearchItem(scan->numberOfOrderBys));
if (GistPageIsLeaf(page))
{
@@ -372,12 +367,10 @@ gistScanPage(IndexScanDesc scan, GISTSearchItem *pageItem, double *myDistances,
}
/* Insert it into the queue using new distance data */
- tmpItem->head = item;
- tmpItem->lastHeap = GISTSearchItemIsHeap(*item) ? item : NULL;
- memcpy(tmpItem->distances, so->distances,
+ memcpy(item->distances, so->distances,
sizeof(double) * scan->numberOfOrderBys);
- (void) rb_insert(so->queue, (RBNode *) tmpItem, &isNew);
+ pairingheap_add(so->queue, &item->phNode);
MemoryContextSwitchTo(oldcxt);
}
@@ -390,44 +383,24 @@ gistScanPage(IndexScanDesc scan, GISTSearchItem *pageItem, double *myDistances,
* Extract next item (in order) from search queue
*
* Returns a GISTSearchItem or NULL. Caller must pfree item when done with it.
- *
- * NOTE: on successful return, so->curTreeItem is the GISTSearchTreeItem that
- * contained the result item. Callers can use so->curTreeItem->distances as
- * the distances value for the item.
*/
static GISTSearchItem *
getNextGISTSearchItem(GISTScanOpaque so)
{
- for (;;)
- {
- GISTSearchItem *item;
-
- /* Update curTreeItem if we don't have one */
- if (so->curTreeItem == NULL)
- {
- so->curTreeItem = (GISTSearchTreeItem *) rb_leftmost(so->queue);
- /* Done when tree is empty */
- if (so->curTreeItem == NULL)
- break;
- }
+ GISTSearchItem *item;
- item = so->curTreeItem->head;
- if (item != NULL)
- {
- /* Delink item from chain */
- so->curTreeItem->head = item->next;
- if (item == so->curTreeItem->lastHeap)
- so->curTreeItem->lastHeap = NULL;
- /* Return item; caller is responsible to pfree it */
- return item;
- }
-
- /* curTreeItem is exhausted, so remove it from rbtree */
- rb_delete(so->queue, (RBNode *) so->curTreeItem);
- so->curTreeItem = NULL;
+ if (!pairingheap_is_empty(so->queue))
+ {
+ item = (GISTSearchItem *) pairingheap_remove_first(so->queue);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ /* Done when both heaps are empty */
+ item = NULL;
}
- return NULL;
+ /* Return item; caller is responsible to pfree it */
+ return item;
}
/*
@@ -458,7 +431,7 @@ getNextNearest(IndexScanDesc scan)
/* visit an index page, extract its items into queue */
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();
- gistScanPage(scan, item, so->curTreeItem->distances, NULL, NULL);
+ gistScanPage(scan, item, item->distances, NULL, NULL);
}
pfree(item);
@@ -491,7 +464,6 @@ gistgettuple(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
pgstat_count_index_scan(scan->indexRelation);
so->firstCall = false;
- so->curTreeItem = NULL;
so->curPageData = so->nPageData = 0;
fakeItem.blkno = GIST_ROOT_BLKNO;
@@ -534,7 +506,7 @@ gistgettuple(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
* this page, we fall out of the inner "do" and loop around to
* return them.
*/
- gistScanPage(scan, item, so->curTreeItem->distances, NULL, NULL);
+ gistScanPage(scan, item, item->distances, NULL, NULL);
pfree(item);
} while (so->nPageData == 0);
@@ -560,7 +532,6 @@ gistgetbitmap(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
pgstat_count_index_scan(scan->indexRelation);
/* Begin the scan by processing the root page */
- so->curTreeItem = NULL;
so->curPageData = so->nPageData = 0;
fakeItem.blkno = GIST_ROOT_BLKNO;
@@ -580,7 +551,7 @@ gistgetbitmap(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();
- gistScanPage(scan, item, so->curTreeItem->distances, tbm, &ntids);
+ gistScanPage(scan, item, item->distances, tbm, &ntids);
pfree(item);
}
diff --git a/src/backend/access/gist/gistscan.c b/src/backend/access/gist/gistscan.c
index 8360b16ae50..eff02c4dbde 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/gist/gistscan.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/gist/gistscan.c
@@ -22,14 +22,13 @@
/*
- * RBTree support functions for the GISTSearchTreeItem queue
+ * Pairing heap comparison function for the GISTSearchItem queue
*/
-
static int
-GISTSearchTreeItemComparator(const RBNode *a, const RBNode *b, void *arg)
+pairingheap_GISTSearchItem_cmp(const pairingheap_node *a, const pairingheap_node *b, void *arg)
{
- const GISTSearchTreeItem *sa = (const GISTSearchTreeItem *) a;
- const GISTSearchTreeItem *sb = (const GISTSearchTreeItem *) b;
+ const GISTSearchItem *sa = (const GISTSearchItem *) a;
+ const GISTSearchItem *sb = (const GISTSearchItem *) b;
IndexScanDesc scan = (IndexScanDesc) arg;
int i;
@@ -37,59 +36,16 @@ GISTSearchTreeItemComparator(const RBNode *a, const RBNode *b, void *arg)
for (i = 0; i < scan->numberOfOrderBys; i++)
{
if (sa->distances[i] != sb->distances[i])
- return (sa->distances[i] > sb->distances[i]) ? 1 : -1;
- }
-
- return 0;
-}
-
-static void
-GISTSearchTreeItemCombiner(RBNode *existing, const RBNode *newrb, void *arg)
-{
- GISTSearchTreeItem *scurrent = (GISTSearchTreeItem *) existing;
- const GISTSearchTreeItem *snew = (const GISTSearchTreeItem *) newrb;
- GISTSearchItem *newitem = snew->head;
-
- /* snew should have just one item in its chain */
- Assert(newitem && newitem->next == NULL);
-
- /*
- * If new item is heap tuple, it goes to front of chain; otherwise insert
- * it before the first index-page item, so that index pages are visited in
- * LIFO order, ensuring depth-first search of index pages. See comments
- * in gist_private.h.
- */
- if (GISTSearchItemIsHeap(*newitem))
- {
- newitem->next = scurrent->head;
- scurrent->head = newitem;
- if (scurrent->lastHeap == NULL)
- scurrent->lastHeap = newitem;
+ return (sa->distances[i] < sb->distances[i]) ? 1 : -1;
}
- else if (scurrent->lastHeap == NULL)
- {
- newitem->next = scurrent->head;
- scurrent->head = newitem;
- }
- else
- {
- newitem->next = scurrent->lastHeap->next;
- scurrent->lastHeap->next = newitem;
- }
-}
-static RBNode *
-GISTSearchTreeItemAllocator(void *arg)
-{
- IndexScanDesc scan = (IndexScanDesc) arg;
-
- return palloc(GSTIHDRSZ + sizeof(double) * scan->numberOfOrderBys);
-}
+ /* Heap items go before inner pages, to ensure a depth-first search */
+ if (GISTSearchItemIsHeap(*sa) && !GISTSearchItemIsHeap(*sb))
+ return -1;
+ if (!GISTSearchItemIsHeap(*sa) && GISTSearchItemIsHeap(*sb))
+ return 1;
-static void
-GISTSearchTreeItemDeleter(RBNode *rb, void *arg)
-{
- pfree(rb);
+ return 0;
}
@@ -127,7 +83,6 @@ gistbeginscan(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
so->queueCxt = giststate->scanCxt; /* see gistrescan */
/* workspaces with size dependent on numberOfOrderBys: */
- so->tmpTreeItem = palloc(GSTIHDRSZ + sizeof(double) * scan->numberOfOrderBys);
so->distances = palloc(sizeof(double) * scan->numberOfOrderBys);
so->qual_ok = true; /* in case there are zero keys */
@@ -188,15 +143,9 @@ gistrescan(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
/* create new, empty RBTree for search queue */
oldCxt = MemoryContextSwitchTo(so->queueCxt);
- so->queue = rb_create(GSTIHDRSZ + sizeof(double) * scan->numberOfOrderBys,
- GISTSearchTreeItemComparator,
- GISTSearchTreeItemCombiner,
- GISTSearchTreeItemAllocator,
- GISTSearchTreeItemDeleter,
- scan);
+ so->queue = pairingheap_allocate(pairingheap_GISTSearchItem_cmp, scan);
MemoryContextSwitchTo(oldCxt);
- so->curTreeItem = NULL;
so->firstCall = true;
/* Update scan key, if a new one is given */
diff --git a/src/backend/lib/Makefile b/src/backend/lib/Makefile
index 327a1bc16d8..b24ece68ad9 100644
--- a/src/backend/lib/Makefile
+++ b/src/backend/lib/Makefile
@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ subdir = src/backend/lib
top_builddir = ../../..
include $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
-OBJS = ilist.o binaryheap.o stringinfo.o
+OBJS = ilist.o binaryheap.o pairingheap.o stringinfo.o
include $(top_srcdir)/src/backend/common.mk
diff --git a/src/backend/lib/README b/src/backend/lib/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5f4038f08cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backend/lib/README
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+This directory contains a general purpose data structures, for use anywhere
+in the backend:
+
+binaryheap.c - a binary heap
+
+pairingheap.c - a pairing heap
+
+ilist.c - single and double-linked lists.
+
+stringinfo.c - an extensible string type
+
+
+Aside from the inherent characteristics of the data structures, there are a
+few practical differences between the binary heap and the pairing heap. The
+binary heap is fully allocated at creation, and cannot be expanded beyond the
+allocated size. The pairing heap on the other hand has no inherent maximum
+size, but the caller needs to allocate each element being stored in the heap,
+while the binary heap works with plain Datums or pointers.
+
+The linked-lists in ilist.c can be embedded directly into other structs, as
+opposed to the List interface in nodes/pg_list.h.
+
+In addition to these, there is an implementation of a Red-Black tree in
+src/backend/utils/adt/rbtree.c.
diff --git a/src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c b/src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4cfc18802b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c
@@ -0,0 +1,274 @@
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *
+ * pairingheap.c
+ * A Pairing Heap implementation
+ *
+ * A pairing heap is a data structure that's useful for implementing
+ * priority queues. It is simple to implement, and provides amortized O(1)
+ * insert and find-min operations, and amortized O(log n) delete-min.
+ *
+ * The pairing heap was first described in this paper:
+ *
+ * Michael L. Fredman, Robert Sedgewick, Daniel D. Sleator, and Robert E.
+ * Tarjan. 1986.
+ * The pairing heap: a new form of self-adjusting heap.
+ * Algorithmica 1, 1 (January 1986), pages 111-129. DOI: 10.1007/BF01840439
+ *
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 2012-2014, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+ *
+ * IDENTIFICATION
+ * src/backend/lib/pairingheap.c
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+#include "postgres.h"
+
+#include "lib/pairingheap.h"
+
+static pairingheap_node *merge(pairingheap *heap, pairingheap_node *a,
+ pairingheap_node *b);
+static pairingheap_node *merge_children(pairingheap *heap,
+ pairingheap_node *children);
+
+/*
+ * pairingheap_allocate
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to a newly-allocated heap, with the heap property defined
+ * by the given comparator function, which will be invoked with the additional
+ * argument specified by 'arg'.
+ */
+pairingheap *
+pairingheap_allocate(pairingheap_comparator compare, void *arg)
+{
+ pairingheap *heap;
+
+ heap = (pairingheap *) palloc(sizeof(pairingheap));
+ heap->ph_compare = compare;
+ heap->ph_arg = arg;
+
+ heap->ph_root = NULL;
+
+ return heap;
+}
+
+/*
+ * pairingheap_free
+ *
+ * Releases memory used by the given pairingheap.
+ *
+ * Note: The nodes in the heap are not freed!
+ */
+void
+pairingheap_free(pairingheap *heap)
+{
+ pfree(heap);
+}
+
+/*
+ * A helper function to merge two subheaps into one.
+ *
+ * The subheap with smaller value is put as a child of the other one (assuming
+ * a max-heap).
+ */
+static pairingheap_node *
+merge(pairingheap *heap, pairingheap_node *a, pairingheap_node *b)
+{
+ if (a == NULL)
+ return b;
+ if (b == NULL)
+ return a;
+
+ /* swap 'a' and 'b' so that 'a' is the one with larger value */
+ if (heap->ph_compare(a, b, heap->ph_arg) < 0)
+ {
+ pairingheap_node *tmp;
+
+ tmp = a;
+ a = b;
+ b = tmp;
+ }
+
+ /* and put 'b' as a child of 'a' */
+ if (a->first_child)
+ a->first_child->prev_or_parent = b;
+ b->prev_or_parent = a;
+ b->next_sibling = a->first_child;
+ a->first_child = b;
+
+ return a;
+}
+
+/*
+ * pairingheap_add
+ *
+ * Adds the given node to the heap in O(1) time.
+ */
+void
+pairingheap_add(pairingheap *heap, pairingheap_node *node)
+{
+ node->first_child = NULL;
+
+ /* Link the new node as a new tree */
+ heap->ph_root = merge(heap, heap->ph_root, node);
+}
+
+/*
+ * pairingheap_first
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the first (root, topmost) node in the heap without
+ * modifying the heap. The caller must ensure that this routine is not used on
+ * an empty heap. Always O(1).
+ */
+pairingheap_node *
+pairingheap_first(pairingheap *heap)
+{
+ Assert(!pairingheap_is_empty(heap));
+
+ return heap->ph_root;
+}
+
+/*
+ * pairingheap_remove_first
+ *
+ * Removes the first (root, topmost) node in the heap and returns a pointer to
+ * it after rebalancing the heap. The caller must ensure that this routine is
+ * not used on an empty heap. O(log n) amortized.
+ */
+pairingheap_node *
+pairingheap_remove_first(pairingheap *heap)
+{
+ pairingheap_node *result;
+ pairingheap_node *children;
+
+ Assert(!pairingheap_is_empty(heap));
+
+ /* Remove the root, and form a new heap of its children. */
+ result = heap->ph_root;
+ children = result->first_child;
+
+ heap->ph_root = merge_children(heap, children);
+
+ return result;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Remove 'node' from the heap. O(log n) amortized.
+ */
+void
+pairingheap_remove(pairingheap *heap, pairingheap_node *node)
+{
+ pairingheap_node *children;
+ pairingheap_node *replacement;
+ pairingheap_node *next_sibling;
+ pairingheap_node **prev_ptr;
+
+ /*
+ * If the removed node happens to be the root node, do it with
+ * pairingheap_remove_first().
+ */
+ if (node == heap->ph_root)
+ {
+ (void) pairingheap_remove_first(heap);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Before we modify anything, remember the removed node's first_child and
+ * next_sibling pointers.
+ */
+ children = node->first_child;
+ next_sibling = node->next_sibling;
+
+ /*
+ * Also find the pointer to the removed node in its previous sibling, or
+ * if this is the first child of its parent, in its parent.
+ */
+ if (node->prev_or_parent->first_child == node)
+ prev_ptr = &node->prev_or_parent->first_child;
+ else
+ prev_ptr = &node->prev_or_parent->next_sibling;
+ Assert(*prev_ptr == node);
+
+ /*
+ * If this node has children, make a new subheap of the children and link
+ * the subheap in place of the removed node. Otherwise just unlink this
+ * node.
+ */
+ if (children)
+ {
+ replacement = merge_children(heap, children);
+
+ replacement->prev_or_parent = node->prev_or_parent;
+ replacement->next_sibling = node->next_sibling;
+ *prev_ptr = replacement;
+ if (next_sibling)
+ next_sibling->prev_or_parent = replacement;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ *prev_ptr = next_sibling;
+ if (next_sibling)
+ next_sibling->prev_or_parent = node->prev_or_parent;
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Merge a list of subheaps into a single heap.
+ *
+ * This implements the basic two-pass merging strategy, first forming pairs
+ * from left to right, and then merging the pairs.
+ */
+static pairingheap_node *
+merge_children(pairingheap *heap, pairingheap_node *children)
+{
+ pairingheap_node *curr,
+ *next;
+ pairingheap_node *pairs;
+ pairingheap_node *newroot;
+
+ if (children == NULL || children->next_sibling == NULL)
+ return children;
+
+ /* Walk the subheaps from left to right, merging in pairs */
+ next = children;
+ pairs = NULL;
+ for (;;)
+ {
+ curr = next;
+
+ if (curr == NULL)
+ break;
+
+ if (curr->next_sibling == NULL)
+ {
+ /* last odd node at the end of list */
+ curr->next_sibling = pairs;
+ pairs = curr;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ next = curr->next_sibling->next_sibling;
+
+ /* merge this and the next subheap, and add to 'pairs' list. */
+
+ curr = merge(heap, curr, curr->next_sibling);
+ curr->next_sibling = pairs;
+ pairs = curr;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Merge all the pairs together to form a single heap.
+ */
+ newroot = pairs;
+ next = pairs->next_sibling;
+ while (next)
+ {
+ curr = next;
+ next = curr->next_sibling;
+
+ newroot = merge(heap, newroot, curr);
+ }
+
+ return newroot;
+}
diff --git a/src/include/access/gist_private.h b/src/include/access/gist_private.h
index 2cbc918ad1a..07bc607f435 100644
--- a/src/include/access/gist_private.h
+++ b/src/include/access/gist_private.h
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
#include "access/itup.h"
#include "access/xlogreader.h"
#include "fmgr.h"
+#include "lib/pairingheap.h"
#include "storage/bufmgr.h"
#include "storage/buffile.h"
-#include "utils/rbtree.h"
#include "utils/hsearch.h"
/*
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ typedef struct GISTSearchHeapItem
/* Unvisited item, either index page or heap tuple */
typedef struct GISTSearchItem
{
- struct GISTSearchItem *next; /* list link */
+ pairingheap_node phNode;
BlockNumber blkno; /* index page number, or InvalidBlockNumber */
union
{
@@ -131,24 +131,12 @@ typedef struct GISTSearchItem
/* we must store parentlsn to detect whether a split occurred */
GISTSearchHeapItem heap; /* heap info, if heap tuple */
} data;
+ double distances[1]; /* array with numberOfOrderBys entries */
} GISTSearchItem;
#define GISTSearchItemIsHeap(item) ((item).blkno == InvalidBlockNumber)
-/*
- * Within a GISTSearchTreeItem's chain, heap items always appear before
- * index-page items, since we want to visit heap items first. lastHeap points
- * to the last heap item in the chain, or is NULL if there are none.
- */
-typedef struct GISTSearchTreeItem
-{
- RBNode rbnode; /* this is an RBTree item */
- GISTSearchItem *head; /* first chain member */
- GISTSearchItem *lastHeap; /* last heap-tuple member, if any */
- double distances[1]; /* array with numberOfOrderBys entries */
-} GISTSearchTreeItem;
-
-#define GSTIHDRSZ offsetof(GISTSearchTreeItem, distances)
+#define SizeOfGISTSearchItem(n_distances) (offsetof(GISTSearchItem, distances) + sizeof(double) * (n_distances))
/*
* GISTScanOpaqueData: private state for a scan of a GiST index
@@ -156,15 +144,12 @@ typedef struct GISTSearchTreeItem
typedef struct GISTScanOpaqueData
{
GISTSTATE *giststate; /* index information, see above */
- RBTree *queue; /* queue of unvisited items */
+ pairingheap *queue; /* queue of unvisited items */
MemoryContext queueCxt; /* context holding the queue */
bool qual_ok; /* false if qual can never be satisfied */
bool firstCall; /* true until first gistgettuple call */
- GISTSearchTreeItem *curTreeItem; /* current queue item, if any */
-
/* pre-allocated workspace arrays */
- GISTSearchTreeItem *tmpTreeItem; /* workspace to pass to rb_insert */
double *distances; /* output area for gistindex_keytest */
/* In a non-ordered search, returnable heap items are stored here: */
diff --git a/src/include/lib/pairingheap.h b/src/include/lib/pairingheap.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e6cae29ce92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/include/lib/pairingheap.h
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+/*
+ * pairingheap.h
+ *
+ * A Pairing Heap implementation
+ *
+ * Portions Copyright (c) 2012-2014, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
+ *
+ * src/include/lib/pairingheap.h
+ */
+
+#ifndef PAIRINGHEAP_H
+#define PAIRINGHEAP_H
+
+/*
+ * This represents an element stored in the heap. Embed this in a larger
+ * struct containing the actual data you're storing.
+ *
+ * A node can have multiple children, which form a double-linked list.
+ * first_child points to the node's first child, and the subsequent children
+ * can be found by following the next_sibling pointers. The last child has
+ * next_sibling == NULL. The prev_or_parent pointer points to the node's
+ * previous sibling, or if the node is its parent's first child, to the
+ * parent.
+ */
+typedef struct pairingheap_node
+{
+ struct pairingheap_node *first_child;
+ struct pairingheap_node *next_sibling;
+ struct pairingheap_node *prev_or_parent;
+} pairingheap_node;
+
+/*
+ * For a max-heap, the comparator must return <0 iff a < b, 0 iff a == b,
+ * and >0 iff a > b. For a min-heap, the conditions are reversed.
+ */
+typedef int (*pairingheap_comparator) (const pairingheap_node *a,
+ const pairingheap_node *b,
+ void *arg);
+
+/*
+ * A pairing heap.
+ *
+ * You can use pairingheap_allocate() to create a new palloc'd heap, or embed
+ * this in a larger struct, set ph_compare and ph_arg directly and initialize
+ * ph_root to NULL.
+ */
+typedef struct pairingheap
+{
+ pairingheap_comparator ph_compare; /* comparison function */
+ void *ph_arg; /* opaque argument to ph_compare */
+ pairingheap_node *ph_root; /* current root of the heap */
+} pairingheap;
+
+extern pairingheap *pairingheap_allocate(pairingheap_comparator compare,
+ void *arg);
+extern void pairingheap_free(pairingheap *heap);
+extern void pairingheap_add(pairingheap *heap, pairingheap_node *node);
+extern pairingheap_node *pairingheap_first(pairingheap *heap);
+extern pairingheap_node *pairingheap_remove_first(pairingheap *heap);
+extern void pairingheap_remove(pairingheap *heap, pairingheap_node *node);
+
+/* Resets the heap to be empty. */
+#define pairingheap_reset(h) ((h)->ph_root = NULL)
+
+/* Is the heap empty? */
+#define pairingheap_is_empty(h) ((h)->ph_root == NULL)
+
+/* Is there exactly one node in the heap? */
+#define pairingheap_is_singular(h) \
+ ((h)->ph_root && (h)->ph_root->first_child == NULL)
+
+#endif /* PAIRINGHEAP_H */