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Add a new interface method SecondaryIndex::NewIterator to enable querying the index (#13257)
Summary:
Pull Request resolved: #13257
The patch adds a new API `NewIterator` to `SecondaryIndex`, which should return an iterator that can be used by applications to query the index. This method takes a `ReadOptions` structure, which can be used by applications to provide (implementation-specific) query parameters to the index, and an underlying iterator, which should be an iterator over the index's secondary column family, and is expected to be leveraged by the returned iterator to read the actual secondary index entries. (Providing the underlying iterator this way enables querying the index as of a specific point in time for example.)
Querying the index can be performed by calling the returned iterator's `Seek` API with a search target, and then using `Next` (and potentially `Prev`) to iterate through the matching index entries. `SeekToFirst`, `SeekToLast`, and `SeekForPrev` are not expected to be supported by the iterator. The iterator should expose primary keys, that is, the secondary key prefix should be stripped from the index entries.
The exact semantics of the returned iterator depend on the index and are implementation-specific. For simple indices, the search target might be a primary column value, and the iterator might return all primary keys that have the given column value. (This behavior can be achieved using the new class `SecondaryIndexIterator`.) However, other semantics are also possible: for vector indices, the search target might be a vector, and the iterator might return similar vectors from the index. (This will be implemented for `FaissIVFIndex` in a subsequent patch.)
Reviewed By: jaykorean
Differential Revision: D67684777
fbshipit-source-id: 59bc33919405a3e9e316a1fa4790c1708788eb85
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