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Fix assorted corner-case bugs in contrib/intarray.
The array containment operators now behave per mathematical expectation for empty arrays (ie, an empty array is contained in anything). Both these operators and the query_int operators now work as expected in GiST and GIN index searches, rather than having corner cases where the index searches gave different answers. Also, fix unexpected failures where the operators would claim that an array contained nulls, when in fact there was no longer any null present (similar to bug #5784). The restriction to not have nulls is still there, as removing it would take a lot of added code complexity and probably slow things down significantly. Also, remove the arbitrary restriction to 1-D arrays; unlike the other restriction, this was buying us nothing performance-wise. Assorted cosmetic improvements and marginal performance improvements, too.
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<para>
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The <filename>intarray</> module provides a number of useful functions
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and operators for manipulating one-dimensional arrays of integers.
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and operators for manipulating null-free arrays of integers.
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There is also support for indexed searches using some of the operators.
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</para>
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<para>
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All of these operations will throw an error if a supplied array contains any
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NULL elements.
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</para>
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<para>
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Many of these operations are only sensible for one-dimensional arrays.
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Although they will accept input arrays of more dimensions, the data is
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treated as though it were a linear array in storage order.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title><filename>intarray</> Functions and Operators</title>
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</para>
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<para>
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The containment operators <literal>@></> and <literal><@</> are
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approximately equivalent to <productname>PostgreSQL</>'s built-in operators
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of the same names, except that they work only on integer arrays while the
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built-in operators work for any array type. An important difference is
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that <filename>intarray</>'s operators do not consider an empty array to be
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contained in anything else. This is consistent with the behavior of
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GIN-indexed queries, but not with the usual mathematical definition of
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containment.
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The operators <literal>&&</>, <literal>@></> and
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<literal><@</> are equivalent to <productname>PostgreSQL</>'s built-in
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operators of the same names, except that they work only on integer arrays
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that do not contain nulls, while the built-in operators work for any array
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type. This restriction makes them faster than the built-in operators
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in many cases.
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</para>
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