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  /* Skip past current doclist element. */
  assert( pReader->nElement<=pReader->nData );
  pReader->pData += pReader->nElement;
  pReader->nData -= pReader->nElement;

  /* If there is more data, read the next doclist element. */
  if( pReader->nData!=0 ){
    sqlite_int64 iDocidDelta;
    int iDummy, n = getVarint(pReader->pData, &iDocidDelta);
    pReader->iDocid += iDocidDelta;
    if( pReader->iType>=DL_POSITIONS ){
      assert( n<pReader->nData );
      while( 1 ){
        n += getVarint32(pReader->pData+n, &iDummy);
        assert( n<=pReader->nData );
        if( iDummy==POS_END ) break;
        if( iDummy==POS_COLUMN ){

#ifndef NDEBUG
/* Verify that the doclist can be validly decoded.  Also returns the
** last docid found because it's convenient in other assertions for
** DLWriter.
*/
static int docListValidate(DocListType iType, const char *pData, int nData,
                           sqlite_int64 *pLastDocid){

  sqlite_int64 iPrevDocid = 0;
  assert( pData!=0 );
  assert( nData!=0 );
  while( nData!=0 ){

    sqlite_int64 iDocidDelta;
    int n = getVarint(pData, &iDocidDelta);


    iPrevDocid += iDocidDelta;
    if( iType>DL_DOCIDS ){
      int iDummy;
      while( 1 ){
        n += getVarint32(pData+n, &iDummy);
        if( iDummy==POS_END ) break;
        if( iDummy==POS_COLUMN ){
          n += getVarint32(pData+n, &iDummy);
        }else if( iType>DL_POSITIONS ){
          n += getVarint32(pData+n, &iDummy);
          n += getVarint32(pData+n, &iDummy);
        }
        assert( n<=nData );
      }
    }
    assert( n<=nData );
    pData += n;
    nData -= n;
  }

  if( pLastDocid ) *pLastDocid = iPrevDocid;
  return 1;
}
#endif

/*******************************************************************/
/* DLWriter is used to write doclist data to a DataBuffer.  DLWriter
** always appends to the buffer and does not own it.
**
** dlwInit - initialize to write a given type doclistto a buffer.
** dlwDestroy - clear the writer's memory.  Does not free buffer.
** dlwAppend - append raw doclist data to buffer.
** dlwAdd - construct doclist element and append to buffer.
*/






typedef struct DLWriter {
  DocListType iType;
  DataBuffer *b;


  sqlite_int64 iPrevDocid;

} DLWriter;

static void dlwInit(DLWriter *pWriter, DocListType iType, DataBuffer *b){
  pWriter->b = b;
  pWriter->iType = iType;


  pWriter->iPrevDocid = 0;

}
static void dlwDestroy(DLWriter *pWriter){
  SCRAMBLE(pWriter);
}
/* iFirstDocid is the first docid in the doclist in pData.  It is
** needed because pData may point within a larger doclist, in which
** case the first item would be delta-encoded.
**
** iLastDocid is the final docid in the doclist in pData.  It is
** needed to create the new iPrevDocid for future delta-encoding.  The
** code could decode the passed doclist to recreate iLastDocid, but
** the only current user (docListMerge) already has decoded this
** information.
*/
/* TODO(shess) This has become just a helper for docListMerge.
** Consider a refactor to make this cleaner.
*/
static void dlwAppend(DLWriter *pWriter,
                      const char *pData, int nData,
                      sqlite_int64 iFirstDocid, sqlite_int64 iLastDocid){
  sqlite_int64 iDocid = 0;
  char c[VARINT_MAX];
  int nFirstOld, nFirstNew;     /* Old and new varint len of first docid. */
#ifndef NDEBUG
  sqlite_int64 iLastDocidDelta;
#endif

  /* Recode the initial docid as delta from iPrevDocid. */
  nFirstOld = getVarint(pData, &iDocid);
  assert( nFirstOld<nData || (nFirstOld==nData && pWriter->iType==DL_DOCIDS) );
  nFirstNew = putVarint(c, iFirstDocid-pWriter->iPrevDocid);

  /* Verify that the incoming doclist is valid AND that it ends with
  ** the expected docid.  This is essential because we'll trust this
  ** docid in future delta-encoding.
  */
  assert( docListValidate(pWriter->iType, pData, nData, &iLastDocidDelta) );
  assert( iLastDocid==iFirstDocid-iDocid+iLastDocidDelta );

  /* Append recoded initial docid and everything else.  Rest of docids
  ** should have been delta-encoded from previous initial docid.
  */
  if( nFirstOld<nData ){
    dataBufferAppend2(pWriter->b, c, nFirstNew,
                      pData+nFirstOld, nData-nFirstOld);
  }else{
    dataBufferAppend(pWriter->b, c, nFirstNew);
  }
  pWriter->iPrevDocid = iLastDocid;
}
static void dlwAdd(DLWriter *pWriter, sqlite_int64 iDocid,
                   const char *pPosList, int nPosList){
  char c[VARINT_MAX];
  int n = putVarint(c, iDocid-pWriter->iPrevDocid);

  assert( pWriter->iPrevDocid<iDocid );
  assert( pPosList==0 || pWriter->iType>DL_DOCIDS );

  dataBufferAppend(pWriter->b, c, n);

  if( pWriter->iType>DL_DOCIDS ){
    n = putVarint(c, 0);
    if( nPosList>0 ){
      dataBufferAppend2(pWriter->b, pPosList, nPosList, c, n);
    }else{
      dataBufferAppend(pWriter->b, c, n);
    }
  }


  pWriter->iPrevDocid = iDocid;

}

/*******************************************************************/
/* PLReader is used to read data from a document's position list.  As
** the caller steps through the list, data is cached so that varints
** only need to be decoded once.
**

static void docListMerge(DataBuffer *out,
                         DLReader *pReaders, int nReaders){
  OrderedDLReader readers[MERGE_COUNT];
  DLWriter writer;
  int i, n;
  const char *pStart = 0;
  int nStart = 0;
  sqlite_int64 iFirstDocid = 0, iLastDocid = 0;

  assert( nReaders>0 );
  if( nReaders==1 ){
    dataBufferAppend(out, dlrDocData(pReaders), dlrAllDataBytes(pReaders));
    return;
  }

    /* If this is a continuation of the current buffer to copy, extend
    ** that buffer.  memcpy() seems to be more efficient if it has a
    ** lots of data to copy.
    */
    if( dlrDocData(readers[0].pReader)==pStart+nStart ){
      nStart += dlrDocDataBytes(readers[0].pReader);
    }else{
      if( pStart!=0 ){
        dlwAppend(&writer, pStart, nStart, iFirstDocid, iLastDocid);
      }
      pStart = dlrDocData(readers[0].pReader);
      nStart = dlrDocDataBytes(readers[0].pReader);
      iFirstDocid = iDocid;
    }
    iLastDocid = iDocid;
    dlrStep(readers[0].pReader);

    /* Drop all of the older elements with the same docid. */
    for(i=1; i<nReaders &&
             !dlrAtEnd(readers[i].pReader) &&
             dlrDocid(readers[i].pReader)==iDocid; i++){
      dlrStep(readers[i].pReader);
    }

    /* Get the readers back into order. */
    while( i-->0 ){
      orderedDLReaderReorder(readers+i, nReaders-i);
    }
  }

  /* Copy over any remaining elements. */
  if( nStart>0 ) dlwAppend(&writer, pStart, nStart, iFirstDocid, iLastDocid);
  dlwDestroy(&writer);
}

/* pLeft and pRight are DLReaders positioned to the same docid.
**
** If there are no instances in pLeft or pRight where the position
** of pLeft is one less than the position of pRight, then this

  dataBufferAppendLenData(&pWriter->data, pData, nData);

  /* Flush standalone blocks right out */
  if( nData+nTerm>STANDALONE_MIN ){
    rc = leafWriterFlush(v, pWriter);
    if( rc!=SQLITE_OK ) return rc;
  }
  assert( leafNodeValidate(pWriter->data.pData, pWriter->data.nData) );

  return SQLITE_OK;
}

/* Used to avoid a memmove when a large amount of doclist data is in
** the buffer.  This constructs a node and term header before
** iDoclistData and flushes the resulting complete node using