cases.  Operator classes now exist within "operator families".  While most
families are equivalent to a single class, related classes can be grouped
into one family to represent the fact that they are semantically compatible.
Cross-type operators are now naturally adjunct parts of a family, without
having to wedge them into a particular opclass as we had done originally.

This commit restructures the catalogs and cleans up enough of the fallout so
that everything still works at least as well as before, but most of the work
needed to actually improve the planner's behavior will come later.  Also,
there are not yet CREATE/DROP/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands; the only way
to create a new family right now is to allow CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to make
one by default.  I owe some more documentation work, too.  But that can all
be done in smaller pieces once this infrastructure is in place.

* new split algorithm (as proposed in http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg00254.php)
  * possible call pickSplit() for second and below columns
  * add spl_(l|r)datum_exists to GIST_SPLITVEC -
    pickSplit should check its values to use already defined
    spl_(l|r)datum for splitting. pickSplit should set
    spl_(l|r)datum_exists to 'false' (if they was 'true') to
    signal to caller about using spl_(l|r)datum.
  * support for old pickSplit(): not very optimal
    but correct split
* remove 'bytes' field from GISTENTRY: in any case size of
  value is defined by it's type.
* split GIST_SPLITVEC to two structures: one for using in picksplit
  and second - for internal use.
* some code refactoring
* support of subsplit to rtree opclasses

TODO: add support of subsplit to contrib modules

in every shared library.

jw.pgsql@sduept.com

Most of the changes add the mandatory USING clause to DROP OPERATOR
CLASS statements.  DROP TYPE is now DROP TYPE CASCADE; without
CASCADE a DROP TYPE fails due to the circular dependency on the
type's I/O functions.  The DROP FUNCTION statements for the I/O
functions have been removed, as DROP TYPE CASCADE removes them
automatically. Patch from Michael Fuhr.

more compliant with the error message style guide. In particular,
errdetail should begin with a capital letter and end with a period,
whereas errmsg should not. I also fixed a few related issues in
passing, such as fixing the repeated misspelling of "lexeme" in
contrib/tsearch2 (per Tom's suggestion).

particular get rid of single quotes around language names and old WITH ()
construct.

by David Fetter

sizebitvec of tsearch2, as well as identical code in several other
contrib modules.  This provided about a 20X speedup in building a
large tsearch2 index ... didn't try to measure its effects for other
operations.  Thanks to Stephan Vollmer for providing a test case.

comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib
directory.  Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names
in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for
indenting).

Backpatch to 8.1.X.

more tests than strictly necessary, but did not feel like tracing call
paths in detail ...

functionality, but I still need to make another pass looking at places
that incidentally use arrays (such as ACL manipulation) to make sure they
are null-safe.  Contrib needs work too.
I have not changed the behaviors that are still under discussion about
array comparison and what to do with lower bounds.

of self-defined macros, add limit of Array  to gist__int_ops. BTW, intarray now
doesn't support NULLs in arrays.

to avoid useless multiple executions of pg_config.

them, the executation behavior could be unexpected.

getting rid of numerous ad-hoc versions that have popped up in various
places.  Shortens code and avoids conflict with Windows min() and max()
macros.

>
> The patch adds missing the "libpgport.a" file to the installation under
> "install-all-headers". It is needed by some contribs. I install the
> library in "pkglibdir", but I was wondering whether it should be "libdir"?
> I was wondering also whether it would make sense to have a "libpgport.so"?
>
> It fixes various macros which are used by contrib makefiles, especially
> libpq_*dir and LDFLAGS when used under PGXS. It seems to me that they are
> needed to
>
> It adds the ability to test and use PGXS with contribs, with "make
> USE_PGXS=1". Without the macro, this is exactly as before, there should be
> no difference, esp. wrt the vpath feature that seemed broken by previous
> submission. So it should not harm anybody, and it is useful at least to me.
>
> It fixes some inconsistencies in various contrib makefiles
> (useless override, ":=" instead of "=").

Fabien COELHO

boxes. Change interface to user-defined GiST support methods union and
picksplit. Now instead of bytea struct it used special GistEntryVector
structure.

datatype; the generic array comparators added in 7.4 supersede this.
Per report and patch from Korea PostgreSQL Users' Group.

$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...

1 intarray: bugfix for int[]-int[] operation
2 intarray: split _int.c to several files (_int.c now is unused)
3 ntarray (gist__intbig_ops opclass): use special type for index storage
4 ltree (gist__ltree_ops opclass), intarray (gist__intbig_ops): optimize
GiST's
penalty and picksplit interface functions, now use Hemming distance.

Teodor Sigaev