Re: record identical operator

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> I think it's far more realistic to implement an identity operator
> that will fall back to a type specific operator iff equals has
> "strange" properties.

My biggest problem with that approach is that it defaults to
incorrect behavior for types for which user-visible differences
among "equal" values are possible, and requires per-type fixes to
get correct behavior.  The approach in this patch provides correct
behavior as the default, with possible per-type changes for
optimization, as people find that desirable.

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