On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think this takes care of adding not only the infrastructure but
>> support for all the core data types, but I'm not quite sure how to
>> handle upgrading types in contrib.  It looks like citext, hstore, and
>> several data types provided by isn have hash opclasses, and I think
>> that there's no syntax for adding a support function to an existing
>> opclass.  We could add that, but I'm not sure how safe it would be.
>
> ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY ADD FUNCTION ... ?
>
> That would result in the functions being considered "loose" in the
> family rather than bound into an operator class.  I think that's
> actually the right thing, because they shouldn't be considered
> to be required.

But wouldn't that result in a different effect than the core data type
changes I just did?

-- 
Robert Haas
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