Update comments in fts3.c to more accurately describe the doclist format.

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** SQLite (in which case SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3 is defined).
*/
/* TODO(shess) Consider exporting this comment to an HTML file or the
** wiki.
*/
/* The full-text index is stored in a series of b+tree (-like)
** structures called segments which map terms to doclists. The
** structures are like b+trees in layout, but are constructed from the
@ -48,13 +45,27 @@
** 21 bits - BBA
** and so on.
**
** This is identical to how sqlite encodes varints (see util.c).
** This is similar in concept to how sqlite encodes "varints" but
** the encoding is not the same. SQLite varints are big-endian
** are are limited to 9 bytes in length whereas FTS3 varints are
** little-endian and can be upt to 10 bytes in length (in theory).
**
** Example encodings:
**
** 1: 0x01
** 127: 0x7f
** 128: 0x81 0x00
**
**
**** Document lists ****
** A doclist (document list) holds a docid-sorted list of hits for a
** given term. Doclists hold docids, and can optionally associate
** token positions and offsets with docids.
** token positions and offsets with docids. A position is the index
** of a word within the document. The first word of the document has
** a position of 0.
**
** FTS3 used to optionally store character offsets using a compile-time
** option. But that functionality is no longer supported.
**
** A DL_POSITIONS_OFFSETS doclist is stored like this:
**
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** varint docid;
** array { (position list for column 0)
** varint position; (delta from previous position plus POS_BASE)
** varint startOffset; (delta from previous startOffset)
** varint endOffset; (delta from startOffset)
** }
** array {
** varint POS_COLUMN; (marks start of position list for new column)
** varint column; (index of new column)
** array {
** varint position; (delta from previous position plus POS_BASE)
** varint startOffset;(delta from previous startOffset)
** varint endOffset; (delta from startOffset)
** }
** }
** varint POS_END; (marks end of positions for this document.
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**
** Here, array { X } means zero or more occurrences of X, adjacent in
** memory. A "position" is an index of a token in the token stream
** generated by the tokenizer, while an "offset" is a byte offset,
** both based at 0. Note that POS_END and POS_COLUMN occur in the
** same logical place as the position element, and act as sentinals
** ending a position list array.
** generated by the tokenizer. Note that POS_END and POS_COLUMN occur
** in the same logical place as the position element, and act as sentinals
** ending a position list array. POS_END is 0. POS_COLUMN is 1.
** The positions numbers are not stored literally but rather as two more
** the difference from the prior position, or the just the position plus
** 2 for the first position. Example:
**
** label: A B C D E F G H I J K
** value: 123 5 9 1 1 14 35 0 234 72 0
**
** The 123 value is the first docid. For column zero in this document
** there are two matches at positions 3 and 10 (5-2 and 9-2+3). The 1
** at D signals the start of a new column; the 1 at E indicates that the
** new column is column number 1. There are two positions at 12 and 45
** (14-2 and 35-2+12). The 0 at H indicate the end-of-document. The
** 234 at I is the next docid. It has one position 72 (72-2) and then
** terminates with the 0 at K.
**
** A DL_POSITIONS doclist omits the startOffset and endOffset
** information. A DL_DOCIDS doclist omits both the position and
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}
}
/*
** Read a single varint from the doclist at *pp and advance *pp to point
** to the next element of the varlist. Add the value of the varint
** to *pVal.
*/
static void fts3GetDeltaVarint(char **pp, sqlite3_int64 *pVal){
sqlite3_int64 iVal;
*pp += sqlite3Fts3GetVarint(*pp, &iVal);
*pVal += iVal;
}
/*
** As long as *pp has not reached its end (pEnd), then do the same
** as fts3GetDeltaVarint(): read a single varint and add it to *pVal.
** But if we have reached the end of the varint, just set *pp=0 and
** leave *pVal unchanged.
*/
static void fts3GetDeltaVarint2(char **pp, char *pEnd, sqlite3_int64 *pVal){
if( *pp>=pEnd ){
*pp = 0;
@ -782,12 +813,6 @@ static int fts3OpenMethod(sqlite3_vtab *pVTab, sqlite3_vtab_cursor **ppCsr){
return SQLITE_OK;
}
/****************************************************************/
/****************************************************************/
/****************************************************************/
/****************************************************************/
/*
** Close the cursor. For additional information see the documentation
** on the xClose method of the virtual table interface.

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