pgsql: GiST improvements: - make sure we always invoke user-supplied - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Log Message:
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GiST improvements:

- make sure we always invoke user-supplied GiST methods in a short-lived
  memory context. This means the backend isn't exposed to any memory leaks
  that be in those methods (in fact, it is probably a net loss for most
  GiST methods to bother manually freeing memory now). This also means
  we can do away with a lot of ugly manual memory management in the
  GiST code itself.

- keep the current page of a GiST index scan pinned, rather than doing a
  ReadBuffer() for each tuple produced by the scan. Since ReadBuffer() is
  expensive, this is a perf. win

- implement dead tuple killing for GiST indexes (which is easy to do, now
  that we keep a pin on the current scan page). Now all the builtin indexes
  implement dead tuple killing.

- cleanup a lot of ugly code in GiST

Modified Files:
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    pgsql/doc/src/sgml:
        gist.sgml (r1.17 -> r1.18)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml.diff?r1=1.17&r2=1.18)
    pgsql/src/backend/access/gist:
        gist.c (r1.115 -> r1.116)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/gist/gist.c.diff?r1=1.115&r2=1.116)
        gistget.c (r1.45 -> r1.46)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c.diff?r1=1.45&r2=1.46)
        gistscan.c (r1.56 -> r1.57)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/gist/gistscan.c.diff?r1=1.56&r2=1.57)
    pgsql/src/include/access:
        gist.h (r1.44 -> r1.45)
        (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/access/gist.h.diff?r1=1.44&r2=1.45)