Commit 45310221 authored by Heikki Linnakangas's avatar Heikki Linnakangas

Fix outdated comments, GIST search queue is not an RBTree anymore.

The GiST search queue is implemented as a pairing heap rather than as
Red-Black Tree, since 9.5 (commit e7032610). I neglected these comments
in that commit.
parent 40c3fe49
......@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ gistrescan(IndexScanDesc scan, ScanKey key, int nkeys,
* which is created on the second call and reset on later calls. Thus, in
* the common case where a scan is only rescan'd once, we just put the
* queue in scanCxt and don't pay the overhead of making a second memory
* context. If we do rescan more than once, the first RBTree is just left
* context. If we do rescan more than once, the first queue is just left
* for dead until end of scan; this small wastage seems worth the savings
* in the common case.
*/
......@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ gistrescan(IndexScanDesc scan, ScanKey key, int nkeys,
ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES);
}
/* create new, empty RBTree for search queue */
/* create new, empty pairing heap for search queue */
oldCxt = MemoryContextSwitchTo(so->queueCxt);
so->queue = pairingheap_allocate(pairingheap_GISTSearchItem_cmp, scan);
MemoryContextSwitchTo(oldCxt);
......
......@@ -107,15 +107,11 @@ typedef struct GISTSTATE
* upper index pages; this rule avoids doing extra work during a search that
* ends early due to LIMIT.
*
* To perform an ordered search, we use an RBTree to manage the distance-order
* queue. Each GISTSearchTreeItem stores all unvisited items of the same
* distance; they are GISTSearchItems chained together via their next fields.
*
* In a non-ordered search (no order-by operators), the RBTree degenerates
* to a single item, which we use as a queue of unvisited index pages only.
* In this case matched heap items from the current index leaf page are
* remembered in GISTScanOpaqueData.pageData[] and returned directly from
* there, instead of building a separate GISTSearchItem for each one.
* To perform an ordered search, we use a pairing heap to manage the
* distance-order queue. In a non-ordered search (no order-by operators),
* we use it to return heap tuples before unvisited index pages, to
* ensure depth-first order, but all entries are otherwise considered
* equal.
*/
/* Individual heap tuple to be visited */
......@@ -298,8 +294,8 @@ typedef struct
#define GIST_ROOT_BLKNO 0
/*
* Before PostgreSQL 9.1, we used rely on so-called "invalid tuples" on inner
* pages to finish crash recovery of incomplete page splits. If a crash
* Before PostgreSQL 9.1, we used to rely on so-called "invalid tuples" on
* inner pages to finish crash recovery of incomplete page splits. If a crash
* happened in the middle of a page split, so that the downlink pointers were
* not yet inserted, crash recovery inserted a special downlink pointer. The
* semantics of an invalid tuple was that it if you encounter one in a scan,
......
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