Take care of some loose ends in the update-from-unpackaged script, and
apply some ugly hacks to ensure that it produces the same catalog state
as the fresh-install script. Per discussion, this seems like a safer
plan than having two different catalog states that both call themselves
"pg_trgm 1.0", even if it's not immediately clear that the subtle
differences would ever matter.
Also, fix the stub function gin_extract_trgm() so that it works instead
of just bleating. Needed because this function will get called during a
regular dump and reload, if there are any indexes using its opclass.
The user won't have an opportunity to update the extension till later,
so telling him to do so is unhelpful.
Unlike Btree-based LIKE optimization, this works for non-left-anchored
search patterns. The effectiveness of the search depends on how many
trigrams can be extracted from the pattern. (The worst case, with no
trigrams, degrades to a full-table scan, so this isn't a panacea. But
it can be very useful.)
Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Jan Urbanski
method to pass extra data to the consistent() and comparePartial() methods.
This is the core infrastructure needed to support the soon-to-appear
contrib/btree_gin module. The APIs are still upward compatible with the
definitions used in 8.3 and before, although *not* with the previous 8.4devel
function definitions.
catversion bump for changes in pg_proc entries (although these are just
cosmetic, since GIN doesn't actually look at the function signature before
calling it...)
Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov
"consistent" functions, and remove pg_amop.opreqcheck, as per recent
discussion. The main immediate benefit of this is that we no longer need
8.3's ugly hack of requiring @@@ rather than @@ to test weight-using tsquery
searches on GIN indexes. In future it should be possible to optimize some
other queries better than is done now, by detecting at runtime whether the
index match is exact or not.
Tom Lane, after an idea of Heikki's, and with some help from Teodor.
Bruce Momjian