Use perfect hashing, instead of binary search, for keyword lookup.

We've been speculating for a long time that hash-based keyword lookup

ought to be faster than binary search, but up to now we hadn't found

a suitable tool for generating the hash function. Joerg Sonnenberger

provided the inspiration, and sample code, to show us that rolling our

own generator wasn't a ridiculous idea. Hence, do that.

The method used here requires a lookup table of approximately 4 bytes

per keyword, but that's less than what we saved in the predecessor commit

afb0d0712, so it's not a big problem. The time savings is indeed

significant: preliminary testing suggests that the total time for raw

parsing (flex + bison phases) drops by ~20%.

Patch by me, but it owes its existence to Joerg Sonnenberger;

thanks also to John Naylor for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190103163340.GA15803@britannica.bec.de

Branch

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master

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c64d0cd5ce24a344798534f1bc5827a9199b7a6e

Modified Files

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src/common/Makefile | 9 +-

src/common/kwlookup.c | 73 +++---

src/include/common/kwlookup.h | 4 +

src/include/parser/kwlist.h | 3 +-

src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile | 13 +-

src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/c_keywords.c | 51 ++--

src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/c_kwlist.h | 3 +-

src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg_kwlist.h | 3 +-

src/pl/plpgsql/src/Makefile | 13 +-

src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_reserved_kwlist.h | 5 +-

src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_unreserved_kwlist.h | 7 +-

src/tools/PerfectHash.pm | 376 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

src/tools/gen_keywordlist.pl | 53 ++++-

src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm | 10 +-

14 files changed, 516 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)