Re: Operator class parameters and sgml docs

Hi, Peter!

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:37 AM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> Commit 911e7020770 added a variety of new support routines to index
> AMs. For example, it added a support function 5 to btree (see
> BTOPTIONS_PROC), but didn't document this alongside the other support
> functions in btree.sgml.
>
> It looks like the new support functions are fundamentally different to
> the existing ones in that they exist only as a way of supplying
> parameters to other support functions. The idea was to preserve
> compatibility with the old support function signatures. Even still, I
> think that the new support functions should get some mention alongside
> the older support functions.
>
> I also wonder whether or not xindex.sgml needs to be updated to
> account for opclass parameters.

Thank you for pointing.  I'm going to take a look on this in next few days.

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