Re: BRIN range operator class

Emre Hasegeli wrote:
> > After looking at 05 again, I don't like the "same as %" business.
> > Creating a whole new class of exceptions is not my thing, particularly
> > not in a regression test whose sole purpose is to look for exceptional
> > (a.k.a. "wrong") cases. I would much rather define the opclasses for
> > those two datatypes using the existing @> operators rather than create
> > && operators for this purpose. We can add a note to the docs, "for
> > historical reasons the brin opclass for datatype box/point uses the <@
> > operator instead of &&", or something like that.
>
> I worked around this by adding point <@ box operator as the overlap
> strategy and removed additional && operators.

That works for me.

I pushed patches 04 and 07, as well as adopting some of the changes to
the regression test in 06. I'm afraid I caused a bit of merge pain for
you -- sorry about that.

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