~> (cube, int) operator was especially designed for knn-gist search.
However, knn-gist supports only ascending ordering of results. Nevertheless
it would be useful to support descending ordering by ~> (cube, int) operator.
We provide workaround for that: negative coordinate give us inversed value
of corresponding cube bound. Therefore, knn search using negative coordinate
gives us an effect of descending ordering by cube bound.
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed by: Tomas Vondra, Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a9657f6a-b497-36ff-e56-482a2c7e3292@2ndquadrant.com
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