Doc: move info for btree opclass implementors into main documentation.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 3785f7eee3d98bc0a7ac2576aac9c0be974217d4
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2018-02-06T18:52:27Z
Releases: 11.0
Doc: move info for btree opclass implementors into main documentation.

Up to now, useful info for writing a new btree opclass has been buried
in the backend's nbtree/README file.  Let's move it into the SGML docs,
in preparation for extending it with info about "in_range" functions
in the upcoming window RANGE patch.

To do this, I chose to create a new chapter for btree indexes in Part VII
(Internals), parallel to the chapters that exist for the newer index AMs.
This is a pretty short chapter as-is.  At some point somebody might care
to flesh it out with more detail about btree internals, but that is
beyond the scope of my ambition for today.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23141.1517874668@sss.pgh.pa.us

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doc/src/sgml/btree.sgml added +267 −0
doc/src/sgml/filelist.sgml modified +1 −0
doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml modified +1 −0
doc/src/sgml/xindex.sgml modified +7 −8
src/backend/access/nbtree/README modified +0 −53

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