Push index operator lossiness determination down to GIST/GIN opclass
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:05:34 +0000 (17:05 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:05:34 +0000 (17:05 +0000)
commit9b5c8d45f62bd3d243a40cc84deb93893f2f5122
tree2d75607f7bdb96cfa1d73a3a36a4b3328118ff08
parent10be77c173211a75718f50fe6061862f6a0cb4a2
Push index operator lossiness determination down to GIST/GIN opclass
"consistent" functions, and remove pg_amop.opreqcheck, as per recent
discussion.  The main immediate benefit of this is that we no longer need
8.3's ugly hack of requiring @@@ rather than @@ to test weight-using tsquery
searches on GIN indexes.  In future it should be possible to optimize some
other queries better than is done now, by detecting at runtime whether the
index match is exact or not.

Tom Lane, after an idea of Heikki's, and with some help from Teodor.
68 files changed:
contrib/btree_gist/btree_bit.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_bytea.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_cash.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_date.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_float4.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_float8.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_gist.sql.in
contrib/btree_gist/btree_inet.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_int2.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_int4.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_int8.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_interval.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_macaddr.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_numeric.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_oid.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_text.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_time.c
contrib/btree_gist/btree_ts.c
contrib/btree_gist/uninstall_btree_gist.sql
contrib/cube/cube.c
contrib/cube/cube.sql.in
contrib/cube/uninstall_cube.sql
contrib/hstore/hstore.sql.in
contrib/hstore/hstore_gin.c
contrib/hstore/hstore_gist.c
contrib/hstore/uninstall_hstore.sql
contrib/intarray/_int.sql.in
contrib/intarray/_int_gin.c
contrib/intarray/_int_gist.c
contrib/intarray/_intbig_gist.c
contrib/intarray/uninstall__int.sql
contrib/ltree/_ltree_gist.c
contrib/ltree/ltree.sql.in
contrib/ltree/ltree_gist.c
contrib/ltree/uninstall_ltree.sql
contrib/pg_trgm/pg_trgm.sql.in
contrib/pg_trgm/trgm_gin.c
contrib/pg_trgm/trgm_gist.c
contrib/pg_trgm/uninstall_pg_trgm.sql
contrib/seg/seg.c
contrib/seg/seg.sql.in
contrib/seg/uninstall_seg.sql
contrib/tsearch2/tsearch2.sql.in
doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
doc/src/sgml/gin.sgml
doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml
doc/src/sgml/indexam.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_opfamily.sgml
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_opclass.sgml
doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml
doc/src/sgml/xindex.sgml
src/backend/access/gin/ginarrayproc.c
src/backend/access/gin/ginget.c
src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c
src/backend/access/gist/gistproc.c
src/backend/commands/opclasscmds.c
src/backend/nodes/copyfuncs.c
src/backend/nodes/equalfuncs.c
src/backend/parser/gram.y
src/backend/utils/adt/tsginidx.c
src/backend/utils/adt/tsgistidx.c
src/backend/utils/adt/tsquery_gist.c
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
src/include/catalog/catversion.h
src/include/catalog/pg_amop.h
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
src/include/nodes/parsenodes.h