> I can see various things that we might consider doing:
>
> 1. Just flip the names of the two operators added by the GIN patch.
>
> 2. #1 plus flip the names of the various contrib operators that are
> out of sync (Michael Fuhr points out that contrib/intarray is out
> of step too ... are there others?).
>
> 3. Leave the existing op names as-is in core and contrib, but consider
> them deprecated and add new ops with consistently-chosen names.
> (The new ops introduced by GIN should only exist with the new names.)
>
> #1 isn't doing anything towards solving the underlying problem.
> #2 has got obvious backwards-compatibility issues for contrib users.
+1 on #2 with the following caveat. When we publish the release notes,
we have a specific section that says:
Compatibility changes from previous releases. Which IMHO should be there
anyway as there are always compatibility issues from release to release.
Joshua D. Drake
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