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Tom Lane d3a4f89d8a Allow no-op GiST support functions to be omitted.
There are common use-cases in which the compress and/or decompress
functions can be omitted, with the result being that we make no
data transformation when storing or retrieving index values.
Previously, you had to provide a no-op function anyway, but this
patch allows such opclass support functions to be omitted.

Furthermore, if the compress function is omitted, then the core code
knows that the stored representation is the same as the original data.
This means we can allow index-only scans without requiring a fetch
function to be provided either.  Previously you had to provide a
no-op fetch function if you wanted IOS to work.

This reportedly provides a small performance benefit in such cases,
but IMO the real reason for doing it is just to reduce the amount of
useless boilerplate code that has to be written for GiST opclasses.

Andrey Borodin, reviewed by Dmitriy Sarafannikov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJEAwVELVx9gYscpE=Be6iJxvdW5unZ_LkcAaVNSeOwvdwtD=A@mail.gmail.com
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config Absorb -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T switch from Perl, if relevant. 2017-08-14 11:48:59 -04:00
contrib Disable multi-byte citext tests 2017-09-19 15:31:37 -04:00
doc Allow no-op GiST support functions to be omitted. 2017-09-19 23:32:59 -04:00
src Allow no-op GiST support functions to be omitted. 2017-09-19 23:32:59 -04:00
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.gitignore Allow .so minor version numbers above 9 in .gitignore. 2016-08-15 17:35:35 -04:00
aclocal.m4 Make configure check for IPC::Run when --enable-tap-tests is specified. 2017-06-15 15:56:12 -04:00
configure Make [U]INT64CONST safe for use in #if conditions. 2017-09-01 15:14:46 -04:00
configure.in Make [U]INT64CONST safe for use in #if conditions. 2017-09-01 15:14:46 -04:00
COPYRIGHT Update copyright for 2017 2017-01-03 12:37:53 -05:00
GNUmakefile.in Have "make coverage" recurse into contrib as well 2016-09-05 18:44:36 -03:00
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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.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	https://www.postgresql.org/download

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