Re: create opclass documentation outdated

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Hmm, but if we ever add support for other types in inclusion as you
> describe, we will need STORAGE, no? I think it's unfortunate that the
> code currently uses the field where it's not really necessary, but
> harmless; if people break their systems by introducing bogus optypes,
> it's their fault. We can discuss improving this in the future, but in
> the back branches it seems fine to leave it as is.

Hypothetical situation where a different storage type might be useful
with minmax: you store int2 values containing ln() of a numeric column.
(Not sure that there's any actual situation for people to store data
where this is valuable; consider astronomical distances, for example.)
You'd need to have support for a "cast" method that takes the values
from the ScanKey and applies ln() to them before doing the comparisons,
but it seems a reassonable setup.

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