Re: Building infrastructure for B-Tree deduplication that recognizeswhen opclass equality is also equivalence

> @@ -106,6 +106,18 @@ CREATE OPERATOR CLASS <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable> [ DEFAUL
>      </listitem>
>     </varlistentry>
>  
> +    <varlistentry>
> +    <term><literal>NOT BITWISE</literal></term>
> +    <listitem>
> +     <para>
> +      If present, the operator class equality is not the same as equivalence.
> +      For example, two numerics can compare equal but have different scales.
> +      Most opclasses implement bitwise equal comparison, alternative behaviour
> +      must be set explicitly.
> +     </para>
> +    </listitem>
> +   </varlistentry>

Am I the only one bothered by the fact that this patch (and all
downstream discussion) reduces the term "bitwise equality" to simply
"bitwise"?  It reads really strange to me, both in the resulting SQL
grammar as well as in struct names, code comments etc.  "This operator
class is bitwise."

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