-
-
Interfacing Extensions To Indices
-
- The procedures described thus far let you define a new
- type, new functions and new operators. However, we
- cannot yet define a secondary index (such as a
B-tree,
-
R-tree or hash access method) over a new type or its
- operators.
-
-
- Look back at
-.
- The right half shows the catalogs
- that we must modify in order to tell
Postgres how
- to use a user-defined type and/or user-defined operators
- with an index (i.e., pg_am, pg_amop, pg_amproc and
- pg_opclass). Unfortunately, there is no simple command
- to do this. We will demonstrate how to modify these
- catalogs through a running example: a new operator
- class for the
B-tree access method that sorts integers
- in ascending absolute value order.
-
-
- The pg_am class contains one instance for every user
- defined access method. Support for the heap access
- method is built into
Postgres, but every other access
- method is described here. The schema is
-
-
Index Schema
-Indices
-
-
-|
- Attribute
- Description
-
-
-
-|
- amname
- name of the access method
-
-|
-amowner
-object id of the owner's instance in pg_user
-
-|
-amkind
-not used at present, but set to 'o' as a place holder
-
-|
-amstrategies
-number of strategies for this access method (see below)
-
-|
-amsupport
-number of support routines for this access method (see below)
-
-|
-amgettuple
- aminsert
- ...
-
-procedure identifiers for interface routines to the access
- method. For example, regproc ids for opening, closing, and
- getting instances from the access method appear here.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- The
object ID of the instance in
pg_am is used as a
- foreign key in lots of other classes. You don't need
- to add a new instance to this class; all you're interested in
- is the
object ID of the access method instance
- you want to extend:
-
+
+
Interfacing Extensions To Indices
+
+ The procedures described thus far let you define a new type, new
+ functions and new operators. However, we cannot yet define a secondary
+ index (such as a
B-tree,
R-tree or
+ hash access method) over a new type or its operators.
+
+
+ Look back at
+ .
+ The right half shows the catalogs that we must modify in order to tell
+
Postgres how to use a user-defined type and/or
+ user-defined operators with an index (i.e., pg_am, pg_amop,
+ pg_amproc, pg_operator and pg_opclass).
+ Unfortunately, there is no simple command to do this. We will demonstrate
+ how to modify these catalogs through a running example: a new operator
+ class for the
B-tree access method that stores and
+ sorts complex numbers in ascending absolute value order.
+
+
+ The pg_am class contains one instance for every user
+ defined access method. Support for the heap access method is built into
+
Postgres, but every other access method is
+ described here. The schema is
+
+
Index Schema
+ Indices
+
+
+ |
+ Attribute
+ Description
+
+
+
+ |
+ amname
+ name of the access method
+
+ |
+ amowner
+ object id of the owner's instance in pg_user
+
+ |
+ amkind
+ not used at present, but set to 'o' as a place holder
+
+ |
+ amstrategies
+ number of strategies for this access method (see below)
+
+ |
+ amsupport
+ number of support routines for this access method (see below)
+
+ |
+ amgettuple
+
+ |
+ aminsert
+
+ |
+ ...
+ procedure identifiers for interface routines to the access
+ method. For example, regproc ids for opening, closing, and
+ getting instances from the access method appear here.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ The
object ID of the instance in
+ pg_am is used as a foreign key in lots of other
+ classes. You don't need to add a new instance to this class; all
+ you're interested in is the
object ID of the access
+ method instance you want to extend:
+
SELECT oid FROM pg_am WHERE amname = 'btree';
+----+
+----+
|403 |
+----+
-
-
-
- The amstrategies attribute exists to standardize
- comparisons across data types. For example,
B-trees
- impose a strict ordering on keys, lesser to greater.
- Since
Postgres allows the user to define operators,
-
Postgres cannot look at the name of an operator (eg, ">"
- or "<") and tell what kind of comparison it is. In fact,
- some access methods don't impose any ordering at all.
- For example,
R-trees express a rectangle-containment
- relationship, whereas a hashed data structure expresses
- only bitwise similarity based on the value of a hash
- function.
Postgres needs some consistent way of taking
- a qualification in your query, looking at the operator
- and then deciding if a usable index exists. This
- implies that
Postgres needs to know, for example, that
- the "<=" and ">" operators partition a
B-tree.
Postgres- uses strategies to express these relationships between
- operators and the way they can be used to scan indices.
-
-
- Defining a new set of strategies is beyond the scope of
- this discussion, but we'll explain how
B-tree strategies
- work because you'll need to know that to add a new
- operator class. In the pg_am class, the amstrategies
- attribute is the number of strategies defined for this
- access method. For
B-trees, this number is 5. These
- strategies correspond to
-
-
B-tree Strategies
-B-tree
-
-
-|
-Operation
-Index
-
-
-
-|
-less than
-1
-
-|
-less than or equal
-2
-
-|
-equal
-3
-
-|
-greater than or equal
-4
-
-|
-greater than
-5
-
-
-
-
-
-
- The idea is that you'll need to add procedures corresponding
- to the comparisons above to the pg_amop relation
- (see below). The access method code can use these
- strategy numbers, regardless of data type, to figure
- out how to partition the
B-tree, compute selectivity,
- and so on. Don't worry about the details of adding
- procedures yet; just understand that there must be a
- set of these procedures for int2, int4, oid, and every
- other data type on which a
B-tree can operate.
-
- Sometimes, strategies aren't enough information for the
- system to figure out how to use an index. Some access
- methods require other support routines in order to
- work. For example, the
B-tree access method must be
- able to compare two keys and determine whether one is
- greater than, equal to, or less than the other.
- Similarly, the
R-tree access method must be able to compute
- intersections, unions, and sizes of rectangles. These
- operations do not correspond to user qualifications in
- SQL queries; they are administrative routines used by
- the access methods, internally.
-
-
- In order to manage diverse support routines
- consistently across all
Postgres access methods,
pg_am- includes an attribute called amsupport. This attribute
- records the number of support routines used by an
- access method. For
B-trees, this number is one -- the
- routine to take two keys and return -1, 0, or +1,
- depending on whether the first key is less than, equal
- to, or greater than the second.
-
-Strictly speaking, this routine can return a negative
-number (< 0), 0, or a non-zero positive number (> 0).
-
-
-
- The amstrategies entry in pg_am is just the number of
- strategies defined for the access method in question.
- The procedures for less than, less equal, and so on
- don't appear in pg_am. Similarly, amsupport is just
- the number of support routines required by the access
- method. The actual routines are listed elsewhere.
-
-
- The next class of interest is pg_opclass. This class
- exists only to associate a name with an oid. In
- pg_amop, every
B-tree operator class has a set of
- procedures, one through five, above. Some existing
- opclasses are int2_ops, int4_ops, and oid_ops. You
- need to add an instance with your opclass name (for
- example, complex_abs_ops) to pg_opclass. The oid of
- this instance is a foreign key in other classes.
-
-INSERT INTO pg_opclass (opcname) VALUES ('complex_abs_ops');
-
-SELECT oid, opcname
+
+
+ We will use that SELECT in a WHERE
+ clause later.
+
+
+ The amstrategies attribute exists to standardize
+ comparisons across data types. For example,
B-trees
+ impose a strict ordering on keys, lesser to greater. Since
+
Postgres allows the user to define operators,
+
Postgres cannot look at the name of an operator
+ (eg, ">" or "<") and tell what kind of comparison it is. In fact,
+ some access methods don't impose any ordering at all. For example,
+
R-trees express a rectangle-containment relationship,
+ whereas a hashed data structure expresses only bitwise similarity based
+ on the value of a hash function.
Postgres+ needs some consistent way of taking a qualification in your query,
+ looking at the operator and then deciding if a usable index exists. This
+ implies that
Postgres needs to know, for
+ example, that the "<=" and ">" operators partition a
+ uses strategies to express these relationships between
+ operators and the way they can be used to scan indices.
+
+
+ Defining a new set of strategies is beyond the scope of this discussion,
+ but we'll explain how
B-tree strategies work because
+ you'll need to know that to add a new operator class. In the
+ pg_am class, the amstrategies attribute is the
+ number of strategies defined for this access method. For
+
B-trees, this number is 5. These strategies
+ correspond to
+
+
B-tree Strategies
+ B-tree
+
+
+ |
+ Operation
+ Index
+
+
+
+ |
+ less than
+ 1
+
+ |
+ less than or equal
+ 2
+
+ |
+ equal
+ 3
+
+ |
+ greater than or equal
+ 4
+
+ |
+ greater than
+ 5
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ The idea is that you'll need to add procedures corresponding to the
+ comparisons above to the pg_amop relation (see below).
+ The access method code can use these strategy numbers, regardless of data
+ type, to figure out how to partition the
B-tree,
+ compute selectivity, and so on. Don't worry about the details of adding
+ procedures yet; just understand that there must be a set of these
+ procedures for int2, int4, oid, and every other
+ data type on which a
B-tree can operate.
+
+
+ Sometimes, strategies aren't enough information for the system to figure
+ out how to use an index. Some access methods require other support
+ routines in order to work. For example, the
B-tree+ access method must be able to compare two keys and determine whether one
+ is greater than, equal to, or less than the other. Similarly, the
+
R-tree access method must be able to compute
+ intersections, unions, and sizes of rectangles. These
+ operations do not correspond to user qualifications in
+ SQL queries; they are administrative routines used by
+ the access methods, internally.
+
+
+ In order to manage diverse support routines consistently across all
+
Postgres access methods,
+ pg_am includes an attribute called
+ amsupport. This attribute records the number of
+ support routines used by an access method. For
B-trees,
+ this number is one -- the routine to take two keys and return -1, 0, or
+ +1, depending on whether the first key is less than, equal
+ to, or greater than the second.
+
+
+ Strictly speaking, this routine can return a negative
+ number (< 0), 0, or a non-zero positive number (> 0).
+
+
+
+
+ The amstrategies entry in pg_am is just the number
+ of strategies defined for the access method in question. The procedures
+ for less than, less equal, and so on don't appear in
+ pg_am. Similarly, amsupport
+ is just the number of support routines required by the access
+ method. The actual routines are listed elsewhere.
+
+
+ The next class of interest is pg_opclass. This class exists only to
+ associate a name and default type with an oid. In pg_amop, every
+
B-tree operator class has a set of procedures, one
+ through five, above. Some existing opclasses are int2_ops,
+ int4_ops, and oid_ops. You need to add an instance with your
+ opclass name (for example, complex_abs_ops) to
+ pg_opclass. The oid of
+ this instance is a foreign key in other classes.
+
+INSERT INTO pg_opclass (opcname, opcdeftype)
+ SELECT 'complex_abs_ops', oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'complex_abs';
+
+SELECT oid, opcname, opcdeftype
FROM pg_opclass
WHERE opcname = 'complex_abs_ops';
- +------+--------------+
- |oid | opcname |
- +------+--------------+
- |17314 | int4_abs_ops |
- +------+--------------+
-isting>
-
- Note that the oid for your pg_opclass instance will be
- different! You should substitute your value for 17314
- wherever it appears in this discussion.
-ara>
-
- So now we have an access method and an operator class.
- We still need a set of operators; the procedure for
- defining operators was discussed earlier in this manual.
- For the complex_abs_ops operator class on Btrees,
- the operators we require are:
-
+ +------+-----------------+------------+
+ |oid | opcname | opcdeftype |
+ +------+-----------------+------------+
+ |17314 | complex_abs_ops | 29058 |
+ +------+-----------------+------------+
+ isting>
+
+ Note that the oid for your pg_opclass instance will
+ be different! Don't worry about this though. We'll get this number
+ from the system later just like we got the oid of the type here.
+ ara>
+
+ So now we have an access method and an operator class.
+ We still need a set of operators; the procedure for
+ defining operators was discussed earlier in this manual.
+ For the complex_abs_ops operator class on Btrees,
+ the operators we require are:
+
absolute value less-than
absolute value less-than-or-equal
absolute value equal
absolute value greater-than-or-equal
absolute value greater-than
-isting>
-ara>
-
- Suppose the code that implements the functions defined
- is stored in the file
-PGROOT/src/tutorial/complex.came>
-ara>
-
- Part of the code look like this: (note that we will
- only show the equality operator for the rest of the
- examples. The other four operators are very similar.
- Refer to complex.c or complex.sqlame> for the details.)
-
+ isting>
+ ara>
+
+ Suppose the code that implements the functions defined
+ is stored in the file
+ PGROOT/src/tutorial/complex.came>
+ ara>
+
+ Part of the code look like this: (note that we will only show the
+ equality operator for the rest of the examples. The other four
+ operators are very similar. Refer to complex.c
+ or complex.sourceame> for the details.)
+
#define Mag(c) ((c)->x*(c)->x + (c)->y*(c)->y)
bool
double amag = Mag(a), bmag = Mag(b);
return (amag==bmag);
}
-
-
-
- There are a couple of important things that are happening below.
-
-
- First, note that operators for less-than, less-than-or
- equal, equal, greater-than-or-equal, and greater-than
- for int4 are being defined. All of these operators are
- already defined for int4 under the names <, <=, =, >=,
- and >. The new operators behave differently, of
- course. In order to guarantee that
Postgres uses these
- new operators rather than the old ones, they need to be
- named differently from the old ones. This is a key
- point: you can overload operators in
Postgres, but only
- if the operator isn't already defined for the argument
- types. That is, if you have < defined for (int4,
- int4), you can't define it again.
Postgres does not
- check this when you define your operator, so be careful.
- To avoid this problem, odd names will be used for
- the operators. If you get this wrong, the access methods
- are likely to crash when you try to do scans.
-
-
- The other important point is that all the operator
- functions return Boolean values. The access methods
- rely on this fact. (On the other hand, the support
- function returns whatever the particular access method
- expects -- in this case, a signed integer.)
- The final routine in the file is the "support routine"
- mentioned when we discussed the amsupport attribute of
- the pg_am class. We will use this later on. For now,
- ignore it.
-
-
-CREATE FUNCTION complex_abs_eq(complex, complex)
+
+
+
+ There are a couple of important things that are happening below.
+
+
+ First, note that operators for less-than, less-than-or equal, equal,
+ greater-than-or-equal, and greater-than for int4
+ are being defined. All of these operators are already defined for
+ int4 under the names <, <=, =, >=,
+ and >. The new operators behave differently, of course. In order
+ to guarantee that
Postgres uses these
+ new operators rather than the old ones, they need to be named differently
+ from the old ones. This is a key point: you can overload operators in
+
Postgres, but only if the operator isn't
+ already defined for the argument types. That is, if you have <
+ defined for (int4, int4), you can't define it again.
+
Postgres does not check this when you define
+ your operator, so be careful. To avoid this problem, odd names will be
+ used for the operators. If you get this wrong, the access methods
+ are likely to crash when you try to do scans.
+
+
+ The other important point is that all the operator functions return
+ Boolean values. The access methods rely on this fact. (On the other
+ hand, the support function returns whatever the particular access method
+ expects -- in this case, a signed integer.) The final routine in the
+ file is the "support routine" mentioned when we discussed the amsupport
+ attribute of the pg_am class. We will use this
+ later on. For now, ignore it.
+
+
+CREATE FUNCTION complex_abs_eq(complex_abs, complex_abs)
RETURNS bool
AS 'PGROOT/tutorial/obj/complex.so'
LANGUAGE 'c';
-isting>
-ara>
+ isting>
+ ara>
- Now define the operators that use them. As noted, the
- operator names must be unique among all operators that
- take two int4 operands. In order to see if the
- operator names listed below are taken, we can do a query on
- pg_operator:
+ Now define the operators that use them. As noted, the operator names
+ must be unique among all operators that take two int4
+ operands. In order to see if the operator names listed below are taken,
+ we can do a query on pg_operator:
/*
* this query uses the regular expression operator (~)
* to find three-character operator names that end in
SELECT *
FROM pg_operator
WHERE oprname ~ '^..&$'::text;
-
-
-
-
- to see if your name is taken for the types you want.
- The important things here are the procedure (which are
- the
C functions defined above) and the restriction and
- join selectivity functions. You should just use the
- ones used below--note that there are different such
- functions for the less-than, equal, and greater-than
- cases. These must be supplied, or the access method
- will crash when it tries to use the operator. You
- should copy the names for restrict and join, but use
- the procedure names you defined in the last step.
-
+
+
+
+
+ to see if your name is taken for the types you want. The important
+ things here are the procedure (which are the
C+ functions defined above) and the restriction and join selectivity
+ functions. You should just use the ones used below--note that there
+ are different such functions for the less-than, equal, and greater-than
+ cases. These must be supplied, or the access method will crash when it
+ tries to use the operator. You should copy the names for restrict and
+ join, but use the procedure names you defined in the last step.
+
CREATE OPERATOR = (
- leftarg = complex, rightarg = complex,
+ leftarg = complex_abs, rightarg = complex_abs,
procedure = complex_abs_eq,
restrict = eqsel, join = eqjoinsel
)
-isting>
-ara>
-
- Notice that five operators corresponding to less, less
- equal, equal, greater, and greater equal are defined.
-ara>
-
- We're just about finished. the last thing we need to do
- is to update the pg_amop relation. To do this, we need
- the following attributes:
-
-<FileName>pg_amproc</FileName> Schema</T</span>itle></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><TitleAbbrev><FileName>pg_amproc</FileName></TitleA</span>bbrev></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><TGroup C</span>ols="2"></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><TH</span>ead></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><Entry>Attribute</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><Entry>Description</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></TH</span>ead></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><TB</span>ody></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><Entry>amopid</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><Entry>the <FileName>oid</FileName> of the <FileName>pg_am</FileN</span>ame> instance</div>
<div class="diff rem">- <span class="marked">for B-tree (== 403, see above)</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><Entry>amopclaid</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<Entry>the <FileName>oid</FileName> of the </div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><FileName>pg_opclass</FileName> instance for <FileName>int4_abs_ops</FileN</span>ame></div>
<div class="diff rem">- <span class="marked">(== whatever you got instead of <FileName>17314</FileName>, see above)</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><Entry>amopopr</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><Entry>the <FileName>oid</FileN</span>ame>s of the operators for the opclass</div>
<div class="diff rem">- <span class="marked">(which we'll get in just a minute)</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><Entry>amopselect, amopnpages</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><Entry>cost functions</E</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></R</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></TB</span>ody></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></TG</span>roup></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></TABLE</span>></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">- The cost functions are used by the query optimizer to</div>
<div class="diff rem">- <span class="marked"> decide whether or not to use a given index in a scan</span>.</div>
<div class="diff rem">- Fortunately, these already exist. The two functions</div>
<div class="diff rem">- we'll use are <FileName>btreesel</FileName>, which estimates the selectivity</div>
<div class="diff rem">- of the <Acronym>B-tree</Acronym>, and <FileName>btreenpage</FileName>, which estimates the </div>
<div class="diff rem">- <span class="marked"> number of pages a </span>search will touch in the tree.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"></P</span>ara></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><P</span>ara></div>
<div class="diff rem">- So we need the <FileName>oid</FileName>s of the operators we just defined.</div>
<div class="diff rem">- <span class="marked"> We'll look up the names of all the operators that </span> take</div>
<div class="diff rem">- <span class="marked"> two <FileName>int4</FileName></span>s, and pick ours out:</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-<span class="marked"><ProgramL</span>isting></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </programl</span>isting></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </p</span>ara></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <p</span>ara></div>
<div class="diff add">+ Notice that five operators corresponding to less, less equal, equal,</div>
<div class="diff add">+ greater, and greater equal are defined.</div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </p</span>ara></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <p</span>ara></div>
<div class="diff add">+ We're just about finished. the last thing we need to do is to update</div>
<div class="diff add">+ the <filename>pg_amop</filename> relation. To do this, we need the</div>
<div class="diff add">+ following attributes:</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <table tocentry</span>="1"></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <title><filename>pg_amproc</filename> Schema</t</span>itle></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <titleabbrev><filename>pg_amproc</filename></titlea</span>bbrev></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <tgroup c</span>ols="2"></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <th</span>ead></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <entry>Attribute</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <entry>Description</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </th</span>ead></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <tb</span>ody></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <entry>amopid</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <entry>the <filename>oid</filename> of the <filename>pg_am</filen</span>ame> instance</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <span class="marked"> for B-tree (== 403, see above)</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <entry>amopclaid</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+ <entry>the <filename>oid</filename> of the</div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <filename>pg_opclass</filename> instance for <filename>complex_abs_ops</filen</span>ame></div>
<div class="diff add">+ <span class="marked"> (== whatever you got instead of <filename>17314</filename>, see above)</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <entry>amopopr</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <entry>the <filename>oid</filen</span>ame>s of the operators for the opclass</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <span class="marked"> (which we'll get in just a minute)</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <entry>amopselect, amopnpages</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <entry>cost functions</e</span>ntry></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </r</span>ow></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </tb</span>ody></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </tg</span>roup></div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </table</span>></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ The cost functions are used by the query optimizer to decide whether or</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <span class="marked">not to use a given index in a scan. Fortunately, these already exist</span>.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ The two functions we'll use are <filename>btreesel</filename>, which</div>
<div class="diff add">+ estimates the selectivity of the <acronym>B-tree</acronym>, and</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <filename>btreenpage</filename>, which estimates the number of pages a</div>
<div class="diff add">+ search will touch in the tree.</div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> </p</span>ara></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <p</span>ara></div>
<div class="diff add">+ So we need the <filename>oid</filename>s of the operators we just</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <span class="marked">defined. We'll look up the names of all the operators that</span> take</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <span class="marked">two <filename>complex</filename>e</span>s, and pick ours out:</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </div>
<div class="diff add">+<span class="marked"> <programl</span>isting></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> SELECT o.oid AS opoid, o.oprname</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> INTO TABLE complex_ops_tmp</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> FROM pg_operator o, pg_type t</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> WHERE o.oprleft = t.oid and o.oprright = t.oid</div>
<div class="diff rem">- and t.typname = 'complex';</div>
<div class="diff add">+ and t.typname = 'complex<span class="marked">_abs</span>';</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> +------+---------+</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> |oid | oprname |</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> +------+---------+</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> |17325 | > |</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> +------+---------+</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</ProgramListing></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">- (Again, some of your <FileName>oid</FileName> numbers will almost certainly</div>
<div class="diff rem">- be different.) The operators we are interested in are</div>
<div class="diff rem">- those with <FileName>oid</FileName>s 17321 through 17325. The values you</div>
<div class="diff rem">- get will probably be different, and you should </div>
<div class="diff rem">- substitute them for the values below. We can look at the</div>
<div class="diff rem">- operator names and pick out the ones we just added.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</Para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-<Para></div>
<div class="diff rem">- Now we're ready to update <FileName>pg_amop</FileName> with our new operator</div>
<div class="diff rem">- class. The most important thing in this entire </div>
<div class="diff rem">- discussion is that the operators are ordered, from less equal</div>
<div class="diff rem">- through greater equal, in <FileName>pg_amop</FileName>. We add the</div>
<div class="diff rem">- instances we need:</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-<ProgramListing></div>
<div class="diff rem">- INSERT INTO pg_amop (amopid, amopclaid,</div>
<div class="diff rem">- amopopr, amopstrategy,</div>
<div class="diff rem">- amopselect, amopnpages)</div>
<div class="diff rem">- SELECT am.oid, opcl.oid, c.opoid, 3,</div>
<div class="diff rem">- 'btreesel'::regproc, 'btreenpage'::regproc</div>
<div class="diff rem">- FROM pg_am am, pg_opclass opcl, complex_ops_tmp c</div>
<div class="diff rem">- WHERE amname = 'btree'</div>
<div class="diff rem">- and opcname = 'complex_abs_ops'</div>
<div class="diff rem">- and c.oprname = '=';</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</ProgramListing></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">- Note the order: "less than" is 1, "less than or equal"</div>
<div class="diff rem">- is 2, "equal" is 3, "greater than or equal" is 4, and</div>
<div class="diff rem">- "greater than" is 5.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</Para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-<Para></div>
<div class="diff rem">- The last step (finally!) is registration of the </div>
<div class="diff rem">- "support routine" previously described in our discussion of</div>
<div class="diff rem">- <FileName>pg_am</FileName>. The <FileName>oid</FileName> of this support routine is stored in</div>
<div class="diff rem">- the <FileName>pg_amproc</FileName> class, keyed by the access method <FileName>oid</FileName> and</div>
<div class="diff rem">- the operator class <FileName>oid</FileName>. First, we need to register the</div>
<div class="diff rem">- function in <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> (recall that we put the <Acronym>C</Acronym> code</div>
<div class="diff rem">- that implements this routine in the bottom of the file</div>
<div class="diff rem">- in which we implemented the operator routines):</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-<ProgramListing></div>
<div class="diff rem">- CREATE FUNCTION int4_abs_cmp(int4, int4)</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ (Again, some of your <filename>oid</filename> numbers will almost</div>
<div class="diff add">+ certainly be different.) The operators we are interested in are those</div>
<div class="diff add">+ with <filename>oid</filename>s 17321 through 17325. The values you</div>
<div class="diff add">+ get will probably be different, and you should substitute them for the</div>
<div class="diff add">+ values below. We will do this with a select statement.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ Now we're ready to update <filename>pg_amop</filename> with our new</div>
<div class="diff add">+ operator class. The most important thing in this entire discussion</div>
<div class="diff add">+ is that the operators are ordered, from less equal through greater</div>
<div class="diff add">+ equal, in <filename>pg_amop</filename>. We add the instances we need:</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+ INSERT INTO pg_amop (amopid, amopclaid, amopopr, amopstrategy,</div>
<div class="diff add">+ amopselect, amopnpages) </div>
<div class="diff add">+ SELECT am.oid, opcl.oid, c.opoid, 1,</div>
<div class="diff add">+ 'btreesel'::regproc, 'btreenpage'::regproc</div>
<div class="diff add">+ FROM pg_am am, pg_opclass opcl, complex_abs_ops_tmp c</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE amname = 'btree' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ opcname = 'complex_abs_ops' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ c.oprname = '<';</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ Now do this for the other operators substituting for the "1" in the</div>
<div class="diff add">+ third line above and the "<" in the last line. Note the order:</div>
<div class="diff add">+ "less than" is 1, "less than or equal" is 2, "equal" is 3, "greater</div>
<div class="diff add">+ than or equal" is 4, and "greater than" is 5.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ The next step is registration of the "support routine" previously</div>
<div class="diff add">+ described in our discussion of <filename>pg_am</filename>. The</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <filename>oid</filename> of this support routine is stored in the</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <filename>pg_amproc</filename> class, keyed by the access method</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <filename>oid</filename> and the operator class <filename>oid</filename>.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ First, we need to register the function in</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <productname>Postgres</productname> (recall that we put the</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <acronym>C</acronym> code that implements this routine in the bottom of</div>
<div class="diff add">+ the file in which we implemented the operator routines):</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+ CREATE FUNCTION complex_abs_cmp(complex, complex)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> RETURNS int4</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> AS 'PGROOT/tutorial/obj/complex.so'</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> LANGUAGE 'c';</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> SELECT oid, proname FROM pg_proc</div>
<div class="diff rem">- WHERE prname = 'int4_abs_cmp';</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">- +------+--------------+</div>
<div class="diff rem">- |oid | proname |</div>
<div class="diff rem">- +------+--------------+</div>
<div class="diff rem">- |17328 | int4_abs_cmp |</div>
<div class="diff rem">- +------+--------------+</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</ProgramListing></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">- (Again, your <FileName>oid</FileName> number will probably be different and</div>
<div class="diff rem">- you should substitute the value you see for the value</div>
<div class="diff rem">- below.) Recalling that the <Acronym>B-tree</Acronym> instance's oid is</div>
<div class="diff rem">- 403 and that of <FileName>int4_abs_ops</FileName> is 17314, we can add the</div>
<div class="diff rem">- new instance as follows:</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-<ProgramListing></div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE proname = 'complex_abs_cmp';</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ +------+-----------------+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ |oid | proname |</div>
<div class="diff add">+ +------+-----------------+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ |17328 | complex_abs_cmp |</div>
<div class="diff add">+ +------+-----------------+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ (Again, your <filename>oid</filename> number will probably be different</div>
<div class="diff add">+ and you should substitute the value you see for the value below.)</div>
<div class="diff add">+ We can add the new instance as follows:</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <programlisting></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> INSERT INTO pg_amproc (amid, amopclaid, amproc, amprocnum)</div>
<div class="diff rem">- VALUES ('403'::oid, -- btree oid</div>
<div class="diff rem">- '17314'::oid, -- pg_opclass tuple</div>
<div class="diff rem">- '17328'::oid, -- new pg_proc oid</div>
<div class="diff rem">- '1'::int2);</div>
<div class="diff rem">-</ProgramListing></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</Para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</Chapter></div>
<div class="diff add">+ SELECT a.oid, b.oid, c.oid, 1</div>
<div class="diff add">+ FROM pg_am a, pg_opclass b, pg_proc c</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE a.amname = 'btree' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ b.opcname = 'complex_abs_ops' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ c.proname = 'complex_abs_cmp';</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+ </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ Now we need to add a hashing strategy to allow the type to be indexed.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ We do this by using another type in pg_am but we reuse the sames ops.</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+ INSERT INTO pg_amop (amopid, amopclaid, amopopr, amopstrategy,</div>
<div class="diff add">+ amopselect, amopnpages)</div>
<div class="diff add">+ SELECT am.oid, opcl.oid, c.opoid, 1,</div>
<div class="diff add">+ 'hashsel'::regproc, 'hashnpage'::regproc</div>
<div class="diff add">+ FROM pg_am am, pg_opclass opcl, complex_abs_ops_tmp c</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE amname = 'hash' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ opcname = 'complex_abs_ops' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ c.oprname = '=';</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+ </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ In order to use this index in a where clause, we need to modify the</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <filename>pg_operator</filename> class as follows.</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+ UPDATE pg_operator</div>
<div class="diff add">+ SET oprrest = 'eqsel'::regproc, oprjoin = 'eqjoinsel'</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE oprname = '=' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = oprright AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = (SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'complex_abs');</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </div>
<div class="diff add">+ UPDATE pg_operator</div>
<div class="diff add">+ SET oprrest = 'neqsel'::regproc, oprjoin = 'neqjoinsel'</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE oprname = '<filename>' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = oprright AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = (SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'complex_abs');</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </div>
<div class="diff add">+ UPDATE pg_operator</div>
<div class="diff add">+ SET oprrest = 'neqsel'::regproc, oprjoin = 'neqjoinsel'</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE oprname = '<filename>' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = oprright AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = (SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'complex_abs');</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </div>
<div class="diff add">+ UPDATE pg_operator</div>
<div class="diff add">+ SET oprrest = 'intltsel'::regproc, oprjoin = 'intltjoinsel'</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE oprname = '<' AND </div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = oprright AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = (SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'complex_abs');</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </div>
<div class="diff add">+ UPDATE pg_operator</div>
<div class="diff add">+ SET oprrest = 'intltsel'::regproc, oprjoin = 'intltjoinsel'</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE oprname = '<=' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = oprright AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = (SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'complex_abs');</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </div>
<div class="diff add">+ UPDATE pg_operator</div>
<div class="diff add">+ SET oprrest = 'intgtsel'::regproc, oprjoin = 'intgtjoinsel'</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE oprname = '>' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = oprright AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = (SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'complex_abs');</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </div>
<div class="diff add">+ UPDATE pg_operator</div>
<div class="diff add">+ SET oprrest = 'intgtsel'::regproc, oprjoin = 'intgtjoinsel'</div>
<div class="diff add">+ WHERE oprname = '>=' AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = oprright AND</div>
<div class="diff add">+ oprleft = (SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'complex_abs');</filename></filename></div>
<div class="diff add">+ </programlisting> </div>
<div class="diff add">+ </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+ And last (Finally!) we register a description of this type.</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+ INSERT INTO pg_description (objoid, description) </div>
<div class="diff add">+ SELECT oid, 'Two part G/L account'</div>
<div class="diff add">+ FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'complex_abs';</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </programlisting> </div>
<div class="diff add">+ </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+ </chapter></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
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