Re: [HACKERS] Enhanced containment selectivity function

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Cleaned-up patch attached and applied.
>
> Please revert this patch. This has not been updated to satisfy the
> previous agreement about how it should work. It is completely
> inappropriate to be dropping code that's specific to one contrib module
> into the core selfuncs.c file. What we had agreed to do was look at
> exporting some of the currently-static functions in selfuncs.c so that
> contrib modules could make use of them from outside the core --- but
> this patch doesn't do that.

OK, reverted, but I saw it using contsel() so I figured we were allowing
it, but I see contsel() is used by our "box", so ltree was just using
something that was already there. Let me see if I can break out the new
selectivity function into /contrib.

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