Ah, seems Tom has even more detail so we will continue to discuss on
that thread.

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On Mon, Aug  3, 2020 at 07:51:51PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, Aug  2, 2020 at 08:43:53PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 8:17 PM osdba <mail...@163.com> wrote:
> > 
> >     hi all:
> > 
> >     In Document "Table 59-1. Built-in GiST Operator Classes":
> > 
> >     "range_ops any range type && &> &< >> << <@ -|- = @> @>", exist double 
> > "@>
> >     ",
> >      
> >     Should be "<@ @>" ?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It helps to reference the current version of the page (or provide a url 
> > link)
> > as that section seems to have migrated to Chapter 64 - though it is 
> > unchanged
> > even on the main development branch.
> > 
> > The table itself is extremely difficult to read: it would be more easily
> > readable if the font was monospaced, but its not.
> > 
> > I'm reasonably confident that the equal sign is part of the second-to-last
> > operator while the lone @> is the final operator.  Mostly I say this because
> > GiST doesn't do straight equality so a lone equal operator isn't valid.
> 
> I dug into this.  This query I think explains why the duplicate is
> there:
> 
>       SELECT oprname, oprleft::regtype, oprright::regtype, oprresult::regtype
>       FROM pg_am
>           JOIN pg_opclass ON opcmethod = pg_am.oid
>           JOIN pg_amop ON opcfamily = pg_amop.amopfamily
>           JOIN pg_operator ON amopopr = pg_operator.oid
>       WHERE amname = 'gist'
>           AND opcname = 'range_ops'
>       ORDER BY 1
> 
>        oprname | oprleft  |  oprright  | oprresult
>       ---------+----------+------------+-----------
>        &&      | anyrange | anyrange   | boolean
>        &<      | anyrange | anyrange   | boolean
>        &>      | anyrange | anyrange   | boolean
>        -|-     | anyrange | anyrange   | boolean
>        <<      | anyrange | anyrange   | boolean
>        <@      | anyrange | anyrange   | boolean
>        =       | anyrange | anyrange   | boolean
>        >>      | anyrange | anyrange   | boolean
> -->    @>      | anyrange | anyrange   | boolean
> -->    @>      | anyrange | anyelement | boolean
> 
> Notice that @> appears twice.  (I am not sure why @> appears twice in
> the SQL output, while <@ appears only once.)  The PG docs explain the
> duplicate:
> 
>       https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/functions-range.html
> 
>       @>      contains range  int4range(2,4) @> int4range(2,3)        t
>       @>      contains element        '[2011-01-01,2011-03-01)'::tsrange @> 
> '2011-01-10'::timestamp   t
>       <@      range is contained by   int4range(2,4) <@ int4range(1,7)        
> t
>       <@      element is contained by         42 <@ int4range(1,7)    f
> 
> There is an anyrange/anyrange version, and an anyrange/anyelement
> version of @> and <@.  Anyway, for the docs, I think we can either
> remove the duplicate entry, or modify it to clarify one is for
> anyrange/anyrange and another is for anyrange/anyelement.  I suggest the
> first option.
> 
> -- 
>   Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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> 
>   The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
> 
> 
> 

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