Summary:
The patch adds a new API `GetEntity` that can be used to perform
wide-column point lookups. It also extends the `Get` code path and
the `MemTable` / `MemTableList` and `Version` / `GetContext` logic
accordingly so that wide-column entities can be served from both
memtables and SSTs. If the result of a lookup is a wide-column entity
(`kTypeWideColumnEntity`), it is passed to the application in deserialized
form; if it is a plain old key-value (`kTypeValue`), it is presented as a
wide-column entity with a single default (anonymous) column.
(In contrast, regular `Get` returns plain old key-values as-is, and
returns the value of the default column for wide-column entities, see
https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/10483 .)
The result of `GetEntity` is a self-contained `PinnableWideColumns` object.
`PinnableWideColumns` contains a `PinnableSlice`, which either stores the
underlying data in its own buffer or holds on to a cache handle. It also contains
a `WideColumns` instance, which indexes the contents of the `PinnableSlice`,
so applications can access the values of columns efficiently.
There are several pieces of functionality which are currently not supported
for wide-column entities: there is currently no `MultiGetEntity` or wide-column
iterator; also, `Merge` and `GetMergeOperands` are not supported, and there
is no `GetEntity` implementation for read-only and secondary instances.
We plan to implement these in future PRs.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/10540
Test Plan: `make check`
Reviewed By: akankshamahajan15
Differential Revision: D38847474
Pulled By: ltamasi
fbshipit-source-id: 42311a34ccdfe88b3775e847a5e2a5296e002b5b
Levi Tamasi