postgresql/src/test
Tom Lane 4e82a95476 Replace "amgetmulti" AM functions with "amgetbitmap", in which the whole
indexscan always occurs in one call, and the results are returned in a
TIDBitmap instead of a limited-size array of TIDs.  This should improve
speed a little by reducing AM entry/exit overhead, and it is necessary
infrastructure if we are ever to support bitmap indexes.

In an only slightly related change, add support for TIDBitmaps to preserve
(somewhat lossily) the knowledge that particular TIDs reported by an index
need to have their quals rechecked when the heap is visited.  This facility
is not really used yet; we'll need to extend the forced-recheck feature to
plain indexscans before it's useful, and that hasn't been coded yet.
The intent is to use it to clean up 8.3's horrid @@@ kluge for text search
with weighted queries.  There might be other uses in future, but that one
alone is sufficient reason.

Heikki Linnakangas, with some adjustments by me.
2008-04-10 22:25:26 +00:00
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bench Catch all errors in for and while loops in makefiles. Don't ignore any 2008-03-18 16:24:50 +00:00
examples
locale More README src cleanups. 2008-03-21 13:23:29 +00:00
mb More README src cleanups. 2008-03-21 13:23:29 +00:00
performance
regress Replace "amgetmulti" AM functions with "amgetbitmap", in which the whole 2008-04-10 22:25:26 +00:00
thread More README src cleanups. 2008-03-21 13:23:29 +00:00
Makefile