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Commit 7406ab623fe added a gist support function that we internally refer to by the symbol GIST_STRATNUM_PROC. This translated from "well-known" strategy numbers to opfamily-specific strategy numbers. However, we later (commit 630f9a43cec) changed this to fit into index-AM-level compare type mapping, so this function actually now maps from compare type to opfamily-specific strategy numbers. So this name is no longer fitting. Moreover, the index AM level also supports the opposite, a function to map from strategy number to compare type. This is currently not supported in gist, but one might wonder what this function is supposed to be called when it is added. This patch changes the naming of the gist-level functionality to be more in line with the index-AM-level functionality. This makes sense because these are essentially the same thing on different levels. This also changes the names of the externally visible functions that are provided for use as such a support function. Reviewed-by: Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/37ebb1d9-9036-485f-a215-e55435689917%40eisentraut.org
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