Summary:
Since ForwardIterator is on a level below DBIter, the latter may call Next() on
it (e.g. in order to skip deletion markers). Since this also updates
`prev_key_`, it may prevent the Seek() optimization.
For example, assume that there's only one SST file and it contains the following
entries: 0101, 0201 (`ValueType::kTypeDeletion`, i.e. a tombstone record), 0201
(`kTypeValue`), 0202. Memtable is empty. `Seek(0102)` will result in `prev_key_`
being set to `0201` instead of `0102`, since `DBIter::Seek()` will call
`ForwardIterator::Next()` to skip record 0201. Therefore, when `Seek(0102)` is
called again, `NeedToSeekImmutable()` will return true.
This fix relies on `prefix_extractor_` to detect prefix changes. `prev_key_` is
only set to `current_->key()` as long as they have the same prefix.
I also made a small change to `NeedToSeekImmutable()` so it no longer returns
true when the db is empty (i.e. there's nothing but a memtable).
Test Plan:
$ TEST_TMPDIR=/dev/shm/rocksdbtest ROCKSDB_TESTS=TailingIterator ./db_test
Reviewers: sdong, igor, ljin
Reviewed By: ljin
Subscribers: leveldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.facebook.net/D23823
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