[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 11/12] vinyl: don't use IPROTO_SELECT type for key statements

[Konstantin Osipov]

* Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev at gmail.com> [19/02/21 13:31]:
> To differentiate between key and tuple statements in comparators, we set
> IPROTO_SELECT type for key statements. As a result, we can't use key
> statements in the run iterator directly although secondary index runs do
> store statements in key format. Instead we create surrogate tuples
> filling missing fields with NULLs. This won't play nicely with multikey
> indexes so we need to teach iterators to deal with statements in key
> format. The first step in this direction is dropping IPROTO_SELECT and
> starting to identify key statements by format instead.

It's amazing how simple this patch is, it's OK to push provided we
decide to push the final patch.


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