RowCompareType served as a way to describe the fundamental meaning of an operator, notionally independent of an operator class (although so far this was only really supported for btrees). Its original purpose was for use inside RowCompareExpr, and it has also found some small use outside, such as for get_op_btree_interpretation(). We want to expand this now, as a more general way to describe operator semantics for other index access methods, including gist (to improve GistTranslateStratnum()) and others not written yet. To avoid future confusion, we rename the type to CompareType and the symbols from ROWCOMPARE_XXX to COMPARE_XXX to reflect their more general purpose. Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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