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We have for a long time been able to prove implications and refutations between clauses structured like "expr op const" with the same subexpression and btree-related operators; for example that "x < 4" implies "x <= 5". The implication machinery is needed to detect usability of partial indexes, and the refutation machinery is needed to implement constraint exclusion. This patch extends that machinery to make proofs for operator expressions involving the same two immutable-but-not-necessarily-just-Const input expressions, ie does "expr1 op1 expr2" prove or refute "expr1 op2 expr2" or "expr2 op2 expr1"? An important example is that we can now prove "x = y" given "y = x", which formerly the code could not deduce unless x or y was a constant. We can make use of the system's knowledge of operator commutator and negator pairs, and can also make use of btree opclass relationships, for example "x < y" implies "x <= y" and refutes "x > y" (notice that neither of these could be proven just from commutator or negator links). Inspired by a gripe from Brian Dunavant. This seems more like a new feature than a bug fix, though, so no back-patch.
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