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With this commit, we add (`CREATE INDEX` / `REINDEX`) `CONCURRENTLY` support for columnar tables.
For that, we implement `columnar_index_validate_scan` callback.
The reasoning behind the implementation is as follows:
* Postgres function `validate_index` provides all the TIDs that are currently in the
index to `columnar_index_validate_scan` callback via a `tupleSort` object..
* We start scanning the table by using `columnar_getnextslot` as usual.
Before moving forward, note that `columnar_getnextslot` guarantees
to return tuples in the order of their TIDs.
* For us to use during table scan, postgres provides a snapshot guaranteeing
that any tuples that are valid according to that snapshot but are not in the
index must be added to the index.
* Then for each tuple that we read from our table, we continue iterating
given `tupleSort` to find the first TID that is greater than or equal to our
tuple's TID.
If both TID's are equal to each other, then we skip the tuple since it's already
indexed.
If the TID that we read from tupleSort is greater then our tuple's TID, then
we decide to insert this tuple into index.
Hanefi Onaldi
Onur Tirtir