postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane a78fcfb512 Restructure operator classes to allow improved handling of cross-data-type
cases.  Operator classes now exist within "operator families".  While most
families are equivalent to a single class, related classes can be grouped
into one family to represent the fact that they are semantically compatible.
Cross-type operators are now naturally adjunct parts of a family, without
having to wedge them into a particular opclass as we had done originally.

This commit restructures the catalogs and cleans up enough of the fallout so
that everything still works at least as well as before, but most of the work
needed to actually improve the planner's behavior will come later.  Also,
there are not yet CREATE/DROP/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands; the only way
to create a new family right now is to allow CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to make
one by default.  I owe some more documentation work, too.  But that can all
be done in smaller pieces once this infrastructure is in place.
2006-12-23 00:43:13 +00:00
..
adminpack Get rid of some unnecessary dependencies on DataDir: wherever possible, 2006-11-06 03:06:41 +00:00
btree_gist Make use of qsort_arg in several places that were formerly using klugy 2006-10-05 17:57:40 +00:00
chkpass Fix a passel of recently-committed violations of the rule 'thou shalt 2006-07-14 05:28:29 +00:00
cube pgindent run for 8.2. 2006-10-04 00:30:14 +00:00
dblink Fix a couple of places that were assuming debug_query_string couldn't 2006-10-19 19:53:03 +00:00
earthdistance Handle missing M_PI the same way we've been doing in the core code, 2006-10-19 20:08:03 +00:00
fuzzystrmatch Simplify contrib Makefiles by removing unnecessary SRCS macro, 2006-10-19 17:40:03 +00:00
hstore Fix typos in comments and error messages in HStore. Patch from Filip 2006-12-05 17:36:00 +00:00
intagg
intarray Restructure operator classes to allow improved handling of cross-data-type 2006-12-23 00:43:13 +00:00
isn Make contrib/isn pass the opr_sanity sanity checks: add missing 2006-11-24 18:44:37 +00:00
lo Rename the uninstall scripts for contrib/lo and contrib/tsearch2 to 2006-09-11 15:14:46 +00:00
ltree pgindent run for 8.2. 2006-10-04 00:30:14 +00:00
oid2name Add externs for optarg/optind where apparently needed. Per Magnus. 2006-10-19 20:38:48 +00:00
pg_buffercache Code cleanup for pg_buffercache, from Mark Kirkwood. 2006-10-22 17:49:21 +00:00
pg_freespacemap Clean up local redeclarations of variables with DLLIMPORT, per report 2006-10-19 18:32:48 +00:00
pg_trgm pgindent run for 8.2. 2006-10-04 00:30:14 +00:00
pgbench pgbench: More fix with handling default scaling factor in the default 2006-10-21 06:31:28 +00:00
pgcrypto Minor code cleanup for pgcrypto: for UDFs declared to be strict, checking 2006-11-10 06:28:29 +00:00
pgrowlocks Simplify contrib Makefiles by removing unnecessary SRCS macro, 2006-10-19 17:40:03 +00:00
pgstattuple Simplify contrib Makefiles by removing unnecessary SRCS macro, 2006-10-19 17:40:03 +00:00
seg Rename contrib contains/contained-by operators to @> and <@, per discussion. 2006-09-10 17:36:52 +00:00
spi Alphabetically order reference to include files, "N" - "S". 2006-07-11 17:26:59 +00:00
sslinfo pgindent run for 8.2. 2006-10-04 00:30:14 +00:00
start-scripts Be consistent about not using ECHO_N/ECHO_C (seems unnecessary on Linux). 2006-07-13 14:44:33 +00:00
tablefunc pgindent run for 8.2. 2006-10-04 00:30:14 +00:00
tsearch2 Fix convertion for 'PFX flag N num' 2006-12-21 17:35:28 +00:00
vacuumlo
xml2 pgindent run for 8.2. 2006-10-04 00:30:14 +00:00
contrib-global.mk
Makefile Add contrib/isn module for ISBN/ISSN/EAN13/etc product numbers, and 2006-09-09 04:07:52 +00:00
README Add contrib/isn module for ISBN/ISSN/EAN13/etc product numbers, and 2006-09-09 04:07:52 +00:00

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because
they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of
the main source tree.  This does not preclude their usefulness.

Each subdirectory contains a README file with information about the
module.  Most items can be built with `gmake all' and installed with
`gmake install' in the usual fashion, after you have run the `configure'
script in the top-level directory.  Some directories supply new
user-defined functions, operators, or types.  In these cases, after you have
installed the files you need to register the new entities in the database
system by running the commands in the supplied .sql file.  For example,

	$ psql -d dbname -f module.sql

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.


Index:
------

adminpack -
	File and log manipulation routines, used by pgAdmin
	by Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>

btree_gist -
      Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GiST
      by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

chkpass -
	An auto-encrypted password datatype
	by D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>

cube -
	Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

dblink -
	Allows remote query execution
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

earthdistance -
	Operator for computing earth distance for two points
	by Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>

fuzzystrmatch -
	Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>

hstore -
	Hstore - module for storing (key,value) pairs
    by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

intagg -
	Integer aggregator
	by mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>

intarray -
	Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

isn -
	PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, EAN13 product numbers
	by Germ<72>n M<>ndez Bravo (Kronuz) <kronuz@hotmail.com>

lo -
	Large Object maintenance
	by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> 

ltree -
	Tree-like data structures
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

oid2name - 
	Maps numeric files to table names
	by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>

pg_buffercache -
	Real time queries on the shared buffer cache
	by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

pg_freespacemap -
	Displays the contents of the free space map (FSM)
	by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

pg_trgm -
	Functions for determining the similarity of text based on trigram
	matching.
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

pgbench -
	TPC-B like benchmarking tool
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

pgcrypto -
	Cryptographic functions
	by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>

pgrowlocks -
	A function to return row locking information
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

pgstattuple -
	A function to return statistics about "dead" tuples and free
	space within a table
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

seg -
	Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

spi -
	Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI.

sslinfo -
	Functions to get information about SSL certificates
	by Victor Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>

start-scripts - 
	Scripts for starting the server at boot time.

tablefunc -
	Examples of functions returning tables
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

tsearch2 -
	Full-text-index support using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov
	<oleg@sai.msu.su>.

vacuumlo -
	Remove orphaned large objects
	by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>

xml2 -
	Storing XML in PostgreSQL
	by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>