Add some notes about the basic mathematical laws that the system presumes

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

Commit: d83235415bc22b486180071db0d52c3df8ddc186
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2007-01-12T17:04:54Z
Releases: 8.3.0
Add some notes about the basic mathematical laws that the system presumes
hold true for operators in a btree operator family.  This is mostly to
clarify my own thinking about what the planner can assume for optimization
purposes.  (blowing dust off an old abstract-algebra textbook...)

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