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    Alter the xxx_pattern_ops opclasses to use the regular equality operator of · 7b8a63c3
    Tom Lane authored
    the associated datatype as their equality member.  This means that these
    opclasses can now support plain equality comparisons along with LIKE tests,
    thus avoiding the need for an extra index in some applications.  This
    optimization was not possible when the pattern opclasses were first introduced,
    because we didn't insist that text equality meant bitwise equality; but we
    do now, so there is no semantic difference between regular and pattern
    equality operators.
    
    I removed the name_pattern_ops opclass altogether, since it's really useless:
    name's regular comparisons are just strcmp() and are unlikely to become
    something different.  Instead teach indxpath.c that btree name_ops can be
    used for LIKE whether or not the locale is C.  This might lead to a useful
    speedup in LIKE queries on the system catalogs in non-C locales.
    
    The ~=~ and ~<>~ operators are gone altogether.  (It would have been nice to
    keep them for backward compatibility's sake, but since the pg_amop structure
    doesn't allow multiple equality operators per opclass, there's no way.)
    
    A not-immediately-obvious incompatibility is that the sort order within
    bpchar_pattern_ops indexes changes --- it had been identical to plain
    strcmp, but is now trailing-blank-insensitive.  This will impact
    in-place upgrades, if those ever happen.
    
    Per discussions a couple months ago.
    7b8a63c3
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