>> Thinking about it that way, perhaps we could add an integer column
>> amop_whats_it_good_for that gets used as a bit field. That wouldn't
>> require changing the index structure, although it might break some
>> other things.
> OPERATOR strategy_number ( op_type [ , op_type ] ) [ FOR { SEARCH |
> ORDER } [, ...] ]
It's very desirable thing to be able to distinguish roles in consistent method
of GiST: computation of distance could be very expensive and. The single way to
provide it in current GiST interface is a strategy number. Of course, we could
add 6-th argument to consistent to point role, but I don't think that's good
decision.
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