Re: Proposed new create command, CREATE OPERATOR CLASS

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Teodor Sigaev wrote:

> >>Wait a second, how can you do that? Doesn't that violate
> >>pg_amop_opc_strategy_index ?
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> > It sure does, but running the script shows that the second insert
> > doesn't try to insert any rows.  There's no entry in the temp table
> > for ~~ because its left and right operands are not the types the
> > SELECT/INTO is looking for.
> >
> > This is evidently a bug in the script.  Oleg?
> >
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> Make me right if I mistake.
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> When we was developing operator @@, I saw that postgres don't use index in
> select if operation has not commutator. But operator with different types in
> argument can't be commutator with itself. So I maked operator ~~ only for
> postgres can use index access for operator @@. There is no any difficulties to
> adding index support for operator ~~. The same things is with contrib/tsearch
> module.
>
> But I think that there is not any other necessity in presence ~~.

Tom,

this is interesting question - do we really need commutator to get
postgres to use index. This is the only reason we created  ~~ operator.
Regards,    Oleg
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Regards,    Oleg
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