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Restructure operator classes to allow improved handling of cross-data-type

cases.  Operator classes now exist within "operator families".  While most
families are equivalent to a single class, related classes can be grouped
into one family to represent the fact that they are semantically compatible.
Cross-type operators are now naturally adjunct parts of a family, without
having to wedge them into a particular opclass as we had done originally.

This commit restructures the catalogs and cleans up enough of the fallout so
that everything still works at least as well as before, but most of the work
needed to actually improve the planner's behavior will come later.  Also,
there are not yet CREATE/DROP/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands; the only way
to create a new family right now is to allow CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to make
one by default.  I owe some more documentation work, too.  But that can all
be done in smaller pieces once this infrastructure is in place.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2006-12-23 00:43:13 +00:00
parent d31ccb6c3e
commit a78fcfb512
76 changed files with 4753 additions and 4100 deletions

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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2006, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h,v 1.119 2006/12/21 16:05:16 petere Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/nodes/primnodes.h,v 1.120 2006/12/23 00:43:13 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ typedef struct RowExpr
*
* We support row comparison for any operator that can be determined to
* act like =, <>, <, <=, >, or >= (we determine this by looking for the
* operator in btree opclasses). Note that the same operator name might
* operator in btree opfamilies). Note that the same operator name might
* map to a different operator for each pair of row elements, since the
* element datatypes can vary.
*
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ typedef struct RowCompareExpr
Expr xpr;
RowCompareType rctype; /* LT LE GE or GT, never EQ or NE */
List *opnos; /* OID list of pairwise comparison ops */
List *opclasses; /* OID list of containing operator classes */
List *opfamilies; /* OID list of containing operator families */
List *largs; /* the left-hand input arguments */
List *rargs; /* the right-hand input arguments */
} RowCompareExpr;