postgresql/doc/src
Tom Lane f933766ba7 Restructure pg_opclass, pg_amop, and pg_amproc per previous discussions in
pgsql-hackers.  pg_opclass now has a row for each opclass supported by each
index AM, not a row for each opclass name.  This allows pg_opclass to show
directly whether an AM supports an opclass, and furthermore makes it possible
to store additional information about an opclass that might be AM-dependent.
pg_opclass and pg_amop now store "lossy" and "haskeytype" information that we
previously expected the user to remember to provide in CREATE INDEX commands.
Lossiness is no longer an index-level property, but is associated with the
use of a particular operator in a particular index opclass.

Along the way, IndexSupportInitialize now uses the syscaches to retrieve
pg_amop and pg_amproc entries.  I find this reduces backend launch time by
about ten percent, at the cost of a couple more special cases in catcache.c's
IndexScanOK.

Initial work by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, further hacking by Tom Lane.

initdb forced.
2001-08-21 16:36:06 +00:00
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graphics These aren't used anymore. 2000-10-08 13:25:11 +00:00
sgml Restructure pg_opclass, pg_amop, and pg_amproc per previous discussions in 2001-08-21 16:36:06 +00:00
Makefile > Kinda looks like Ian broke the compile-in-source-dir case while 2001-03-27 16:34:14 +00:00