Add polygon opclass for SP-GiST

Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

Commit: ff963b393ca93a71d2f398c4c584b322cd351c2c
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Date: 2017-12-25T15:59:38Z
Releases: 11.0
Add polygon opclass for SP-GiST

Polygon opclass uses compress method feature of SP-GiST added earlier. For now
it's a single operator class which uses this feature. SP-GiST actually indexes
a bounding boxes of input polygons, so part of supported operations are lossy.
Opclass uses most methods of corresponding opclass over boxes of SP-GiST and
treats bounding boxes as point in 4D-space.

Bump catalog version.

Authors: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov with minor editorization by me
Reviewed-By: all authors + Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54907069.1030506@sigaev.ru

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