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+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/xindex.sgml,v 1.45 2006/09/05 03:09:56 momjian Exp $ -->
<sect1 id="xindex">
<title>Interfacing Extensions To Indexes</title>
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</table>
<para>
- GIN indexes require four support functions,
- shown in <xref linkend="xindex-gin-support-table">.
- </para>
-
- <table tocentry="1" id="xindex-gin-support-table">
- <title>GIN Support Functions</title>
- <tgroup cols="2">
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry>Function</entry>
- <entry>Support Number</entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>compare</entry>
- <entry>1</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>extract value</entry>
- <entry>2</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>extract query</entry>
- <entry>3</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>consistent</entry>
- <entry>4</entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
-
- <para>
Unlike strategy operators, support functions return whichever data
type the particular index method expects; for example in the case
of the comparison function for B-trees, a signed integer.