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    Implement operator class parameters · 911e7020
    Alexander Korotkov authored
    PostgreSQL provides set of template index access methods, where opclasses have
    much freedom in the semantics of indexing.  These index AMs are GiST, GIN,
    SP-GiST and BRIN.  There opclasses define representation of keys, operations on
    them and supported search strategies.  So, it's natural that opclasses may be
    faced some tradeoffs, which require user-side decision.  This commit implements
    opclass parameters allowing users to set some values, which tell opclass how to
    index the particular dataset.
    
    This commit doesn't introduce new storage in system catalog.  Instead it uses
    pg_attribute.attoptions, which is used for table column storage options but
    unused for index attributes.
    
    In order to evade changing signature of each opclass support function, we
    implement unified way to pass options to opclass support functions.  Options
    are set to fn_expr as the constant bytea expression.  It's possible due to the
    fact that opclass support functions are executed outside of expressions, so
    fn_expr is unused for them.
    
    This commit comes with some examples of opclass options usage.  We parametrize
    signature length in GiST.  That applies to multiple opclasses: tsvector_ops,
    gist__intbig_ops, gist_ltree_ops, gist__ltree_ops, gist_trgm_ops and
    gist_hstore_ops.  Also we parametrize maximum number of integer ranges for
    gist__int_ops.  However, the main future usage of this feature is expected
    to be json, where users would be able to specify which way to index particular
    json parts.
    
    Catversion is bumped.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d22c3a18-31c7-1879-fc11-4c1ce2f5e5af%40postgrespro.ru
    Author: Nikita Glukhov, revised by me
    Reviwed-by: Nikolay Shaplov, Robert Haas, Tom Lane, Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera
    911e7020
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