* introduced UnsignedValue type
* leveraged existing int64 compression algorithms (RLE, Simple 8B)
* tsm and WAL can read and write UnsignedValue
* compaction is aware of UnsignedValue
* unsigned support to model, cursors and write points
NOTE: there is no support to create unsigned points, as the line
protocol has not been modified.
This fixes a pathalogical query condition cause by and problematic
structuring of TSM files based on how points were written. The
condition can occur when there are multiple TSM files and a large
number of points are written into the past. The earlier existing
TSM files must also have points in the past and close to the present
causing their time range to eclipse the later files.
When this condition occurs, some queries can spend an excessive amount
of time merge all the overlapping blocks.
The fix was to constrain the window of overlapping blocks based on
the first one we ran into. There was also a simple case in the Merge
where we could skip the binary search path and just append the two
inputs.
Stuart Carnie
Jason Wilder