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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Operator Classes and Operator Families</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.2.24 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Indexes" HREF="indexes.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Partial Indexes" HREF="indexes-partial.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Indexes and Collations" HREF="indexes-collations.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2017-11-06T22:43:11"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.2.24 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="Partial Indexes" HREF="indexes-partial.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="indexes.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 11. 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For example, a B-tree index on the type <TT CLASS="TYPE" >int4</TT > would use the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >int4_ops</TT > class; this operator class includes comparison functions for values of type <TT CLASS="TYPE" >int4</TT >. In practice the default operator class for the column's data type is usually sufficient. The main reason for having operator classes is that for some data types, there could be more than one meaningful index behavior. For example, we might want to sort a complex-number data type either by absolute value or by real part. We could do this by defining two operator classes for the data type and then selecting the proper class when making an index. The operator class determines the basic sort ordering (which can then be modified by adding sort options <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >COLLATE</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >ASC</TT >/<TT CLASS="LITERAL" >DESC</TT > and/or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >NULLS FIRST</TT >/<TT CLASS="LITERAL" >NULLS LAST</TT >). </P ><P > There are also some built-in operator classes besides the default ones: <P ></P ></P><UL ><LI ><P > The operator classes <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >text_pattern_ops</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >varchar_pattern_ops</TT >, and <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >bpchar_pattern_ops</TT > support B-tree indexes on the types <TT CLASS="TYPE" >text</TT >, <TT CLASS="TYPE" >varchar</TT >, and <TT CLASS="TYPE" >char</TT > respectively. The difference from the default operator classes is that the values are compared strictly character by character rather than according to the locale-specific collation rules. This makes these operator classes suitable for use by queries involving pattern matching expressions (<TT CLASS="LITERAL" >LIKE</TT > or POSIX regular expressions) when the database does not use the standard <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"C"</SPAN > locale. As an example, you might index a <TT CLASS="TYPE" >varchar</TT > column like this: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >CREATE INDEX test_index ON test_table (col varchar_pattern_ops);</PRE ><P> Note that you should also create an index with the default operator class if you want queries involving ordinary <TT CLASS="LITERAL" ><</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" ><=</TT >, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >></TT >, or <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >>=</TT > comparisons to use an index. Such queries cannot use the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >xxx</I ></TT >_pattern_ops</TT > operator classes. (Ordinary equality comparisons can use these operator classes, however.) It is possible to create multiple indexes on the same column with different operator classes. If you do use the C locale, you do not need the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >xxx</I ></TT >_pattern_ops</TT > operator classes, because an index with the default operator class is usable for pattern-matching queries in the C locale. </P ></LI ></UL ><P> </P ><P > The following query shows all defined operator classes: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >SELECT am.amname AS index_method, opc.opcname AS opclass_name FROM pg_am am, pg_opclass opc WHERE opc.opcmethod = am.oid ORDER BY index_method, opclass_name;</PRE ><P> </P ><P > An operator class is actually just a subset of a larger structure called an <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >operator family</I >. In cases where several data types have similar behaviors, it is frequently useful to define cross-data-type operators and allow these to work with indexes. To do this, the operator classes for each of the types must be grouped into the same operator family. The cross-type operators are members of the family, but are not associated with any single class within the family. </P ><P > This query shows all defined operator families and all the operators included in each family: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >SELECT am.amname AS index_method, opf.opfname AS opfamily_name, amop.amopopr::regoperator AS opfamily_operator FROM pg_am am, pg_opfamily opf, pg_amop amop WHERE opf.opfmethod = am.oid AND amop.amopfamily = opf.oid ORDER BY index_method, opfamily_name, opfamily_operator;</PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="indexes-partial.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="indexes-collations.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Partial Indexes</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="indexes.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Indexes and Collations</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >