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authorBruce Momjian2010-02-24 15:54:31 +0000
committerBruce Momjian2010-02-24 15:54:31 +0000
commit99ef5152801789dfe04b76a4feb675e4191b72e5 (patch)
treef5d3df73f81de09fc359cb01e5f21f36c19c3e1d /doc/src/sgml/xindex.sgml
parentb5a6a52fba5261ab04b287dc3fa4de2bb9c6fbdc (diff)
Revert removal of pre-7.4 documenation behavior mentions.
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-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/xindex.sgml,v 1.65 2010/02/24 03:33:49 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/xindex.sgml,v 1.66 2010/02/24 15:54:31 momjian Exp $ -->
<sect1 id="xindex">
<title>Interfacing Extensions To Indexes</title>
@@ -895,6 +895,16 @@ ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY integer_ops USING btree ADD
try to use these SQL features with the data type.
</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ In <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> versions before 7.4,
+ sorting and grouping operations would implicitly use operators named
+ <literal>=</>, <literal>&lt;</>, and <literal>&gt;</>. The new
+ behavior of relying on default operator classes avoids having to make
+ any assumption about the behavior of operators with particular names.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
<para>
Another important point is that an operator that
appears in a hash operator family is a candidate for hash joins,