github.com/cockroachdb/pebble@v0.0.0-20231214172447-ab4952c5f87b/internal/keyspan/get.go (about)

     1  // Copyright 2018 The LevelDB-Go and Pebble Authors. All rights reserved. Use
     2  // of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in
     3  // the LICENSE file.
     4  
     5  package keyspan
     6  
     7  import "github.com/cockroachdb/pebble/internal/base"
     8  
     9  // Get returns the newest span that contains the target key. If no span
    10  // contains the target key, an empty span is returned. The snapshot
    11  // parameter controls the visibility of spans (only spans older than the
    12  // snapshot sequence number are visible). The iterator must contain
    13  // fragmented spans: no span may overlap another.
    14  func Get(cmp base.Compare, iter FragmentIterator, key []byte) *Span {
    15  	// NB: We use SeekLT in order to land on the proper span for a search
    16  	// key that resides in the middle of a span. Consider the scenario:
    17  	//
    18  	//     a---e
    19  	//         e---i
    20  	//
    21  	// The spans are indexed by their start keys `a` and `e`. If the
    22  	// search key is `c` we want to land on the span [a,e). If we were
    23  	// to use SeekGE then the search key `c` would land on the span
    24  	// [e,i) and we'd have to backtrack. The one complexity here is what
    25  	// happens for the search key `e`. In that case SeekLT will land us
    26  	// on the span [a,e) and we'll have to move forward.
    27  	iterSpan := iter.SeekLT(key)
    28  	if iterSpan == nil {
    29  		iterSpan = iter.Next()
    30  		if iterSpan == nil {
    31  			// The iterator is empty.
    32  			return nil
    33  		}
    34  		if cmp(key, iterSpan.Start) < 0 {
    35  			// The search key lies before the first span.
    36  			return nil
    37  		}
    38  	}
    39  
    40  	// Invariant: key > iterSpan.Start
    41  	if cmp(key, iterSpan.End) >= 0 {
    42  		// The current span lies before the search key. Advance the iterator
    43  		// once to potentially land on a key with a start key exactly equal to
    44  		// key. (See the comment at the beginning of this function.)
    45  		iterSpan = iter.Next()
    46  		if iterSpan == nil || cmp(key, iterSpan.Start) < 0 {
    47  			// We've run out of spans or we've moved on to a span which
    48  			// starts after our search key.
    49  			return nil
    50  		}
    51  	}
    52  	return iterSpan
    53  }