Index scan troubles

From: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
To: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Index scan troubles
Date: 2008-09-02 16:09:17
Message-ID: 48BD652D.9060303@bluegap.ch
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Hi,

I'm having a hard time using an index scan. So far, I've done quite well
with ScanKeyInit for equality searches. But now I need to scan an index
from a given starting point. Something like:

(x, y, z,...) > (const, const, const,...)

For the equality operatior, I've used get_sort_group_operators() in
combination with get_opcode() to pass that on as the sk_func of the scan
key. I slowly begin to doubt if that's correct at all.

While it works for equality scans, it does somehow not work for for
BTGreaterStrategy. What am I missing?

I do have the following: an indexStruct on the index (primary key) I
want to use, a TupleDescriptor for the relation I want tuples from and
of course the list of constants (datums) to compare against. I want to
do an index scan to retrieve tuples from that given lower bound upwards
(or forwards).

I don't quite grok all the opfamily and opclass things, yet. Hints and
pointers on where to read on greatly appreciated. A virtual beer for
sample code. ;-)

Regards

Markus Wanner

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