Restructure index access method API to hide most of it at the C level.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 65c5fcd353a859da9e61bfb2b92a99f12937de3b
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2016-01-18T00:36:59Z
Releases: 9.6.0
Restructure index access method API to hide most of it at the C level.

This patch reduces pg_am to just two columns, a name and a handler
function.  All the data formerly obtained from pg_am is now provided
in a C struct returned by the handler function.  This is similar to
the designs we've adopted for FDWs and tablesample methods.  There
are multiple advantages.  For one, the index AM's support functions
are now simple C functions, making them faster to call and much less
error-prone, since the C compiler can now check function signatures.
For another, this will make it far more practical to define index access
methods in installable extensions.

A disadvantage is that SQL-level code can no longer see attributes
of index AMs; in particular, some of the crosschecks in the opr_sanity
regression test are no longer possible from SQL.  We've addressed that
by adding a facility for the index AM to perform such checks instead.
(Much more could be done in that line, but for now we're content if the
amvalidate functions more or less replace what opr_sanity used to do.)
We might also want to expose some sort of reporting functionality, but
this patch doesn't do that.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Petr Jelínek, and rather heavily
editorialized on by me.

Files

PathChange+/−
contrib/pageinspect/btreefuncs.c modified +1 −0
contrib/pgstattuple/pgstatindex.c modified +1 −0
contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple.c modified +1 −0
doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml modified +7 −206
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml modified +9 −0
doc/src/sgml/indexam.sgml modified +127 −42
doc/src/sgml/xindex.sgml modified +1 −1
src/backend/access/brin/brin.c modified +79 −82
src/backend/access/brin/brin_validate.c added +152 −0
src/backend/access/brin/Makefile modified +1 −1
src/backend/access/common/reloptions.c modified +9 −26
src/backend/access/gin/ginget.c modified +4 −6
src/backend/access/gin/gininsert.c modified +10 −23
src/backend/access/gin/ginscan.c modified +8 −33
src/backend/access/gin/ginutil.c modified +50 −7
src/backend/access/gin/ginvacuum.c modified +8 −13
src/backend/access/gin/ginvalidate.c added +145 −0
src/backend/access/gin/Makefile modified +1 −1
src/backend/access/gist/gistbuild.c modified +3 −6
src/backend/access/gist/gist.c modified +54 −22
src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c modified +14 −21
src/backend/access/gist/gistscan.c modified +8 −33
src/backend/access/gist/gistutil.c modified +4 −7
src/backend/access/gist/gistvacuum.c modified +8 −13
src/backend/access/gist/gistvalidate.c added +133 −0
src/backend/access/gist/Makefile modified +1 −1
src/backend/access/hash/hash.c modified +78 −89
src/backend/access/hash/hashutil.c modified +3 −11
src/backend/access/hash/hashvalidate.c added +157 −0
src/backend/access/hash/Makefile modified +1 −1
src/backend/access/index/amapi.c added +114 −0
src/backend/access/index/indexam.c modified +43 −124
src/backend/access/index/Makefile modified +1 −1
src/backend/access/nbtree/Makefile modified +1 −1
src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtree.c modified +86 −79
src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtutils.c modified +3 −10
src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtvalidate.c added +204 −0
src/backend/access/spgist/Makefile modified +1 −1
src/backend/access/spgist/spginsert.c modified +10 −23
src/backend/access/spgist/spgscan.c modified +18 −49
src/backend/access/spgist/spgutils.c modified +48 −12
src/backend/access/spgist/spgvacuum.c modified +8 −13
src/backend/access/spgist/spgvalidate.c added +129 −0
src/backend/catalog/index.c modified +13 −24
src/backend/catalog/objectaddress.c modified +1 −0
src/backend/catalog/toasting.c modified +1 −0
src/backend/commands/cluster.c modified +3 −1
src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c modified +15 −7
src/backend/commands/opclasscmds.c modified +17 −24
src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c modified +4 −2
src/backend/commands/typecmds.c modified +1 −0
src/backend/executor/execAmi.c modified +6 −10
src/backend/executor/nodeIndexscan.c modified +3 −2
src/backend/nodes/outfuncs.c modified +1 −1
src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c modified +6 −8
src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c modified +15 −9
src/backend/parser/parse_clause.c modified +1 −0
src/backend/parser/parse_utilcmd.c modified +11 −3
src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c modified +1 −1
src/backend/utils/adt/pseudotypes.c modified +27 −0
src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c modified +7 −1
src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c modified +29 −69
src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c modified +1 −0
src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c modified +51 −35
src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c modified +1 −0
src/backend/utils/cache/typcache.c modified +1 −0
src/backend/utils/sort/sortsupport.c modified +1 −0
src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c modified +1 −0
src/include/access/amapi.h added +174 −0
src/include/access/brin.h modified +2 −13
src/include/access/brin_internal.h modified +27 −7
src/include/access/gin_private.h modified +23 −13
src/include/access/gist_private.h modified +21 −9
src/include/access/gistscan.h modified +5 −6
src/include/access/hash.h modified +22 −14
src/include/access/nbtree.h modified +29 −15
src/include/access/reloptions.h modified +3 −2
src/include/access/spgist.h modified +27 −17
src/include/catalog/catversion.h modified +1 −1
src/include/catalog/pg_am.h modified +9 −69
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h modified +21 −177
src/include/catalog/pg_type.h modified +2 −0
src/include/nodes/nodes.h modified +1 −0
src/include/nodes/relation.h modified +4 −2
src/include/utils/builtins.h modified +2 −0
src/include/utils/index_selfuncs.h added +68 −0
src/include/utils/rel.h modified +3 −20
src/include/utils/selfuncs.h modified +2 −9
src/test/regress/expected/oidjoins.out modified +12 −124
src/test/regress/expected/opr_sanity.out modified +26 −102
src/test/regress/sql/oidjoins.sql modified +7 −63
src/test/regress/sql/opr_sanity.sql modified +27 −88
src/tools/findoidjoins/README modified +14 −19

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