This patch makes some improvements to the rtree index implementation:

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>

Commit: b4297c177c466d2cc0268df6b16261ab4f3cb777
Author: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: 2005-01-18T23:25:55Z
Releases: 8.1.0
This patch makes some improvements to the rtree index implementation:

(1) Keep a pin on the scan's current buffer and mark buffer. This
avoids the need to do a ReadBuffer() for each tuple produced by the
scan. Since ReadBuffer() is expensive, this is a significant win.

(2) Convert a ReleaseBuffer(); ReadBuffer() pair into
ReleaseAndReadBuffer(). Surely not a huge win, but it saves a lock
acquire/release...

(3) Remove a bunch of duplicated code in rtget.c; make rtnext() handle
both the "initial result" and "subsequent result" cases.

(4) Add support for index tuple killing

(5) Remove rtscancache(): it is dead code, for the same reason that
gistscancache() is dead code (an index scan ought not be invoked with
NoMovementScanDirection).

The end result is about a 10% improvement in rtree index scan perf,
according to contrib/rtree_gist/bench.

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