Re: Okay to remove mention of mystery @ and ~ operators?

> On 19 Apr 2024, at 12:31, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>>> This page says that the `@` and `~` operators on various types can be accelerated by a GiST index.
>>> 
>>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/gist-builtin-opclasses.html
>>> 
>>> These operators have been listed in the file since it was created in 2014, but if they exist then I don't know how to use them or what they do.
>>> 
>>> Code examples, for clarity:
>>> 
>>>> select box '(0,0),(1, 1)' ~ box '(2,2),(3,3)';
>>> operator does not exist: box ~ box
>>> 
>>>> select box '(0,0),(1, 1)' @ box '(2,2),(3,3)';
>>> operator does not exist: box @ box
>>> 
>>> If they're a typo or some removed thing then I'd like to remove them from the page. This email is me asking to find out if I'm wrong about that before I try to submit a patch (also very happy for someone with a committer bit to just fix this).
>> 
>> Indeed, there is no @(box,box) or ~(box,box) in the \dAo output. These
>> operators were removed by 2f70fdb0644c back in 2020.
>> 
>> I will submit a patch for the documentation shortly. Thanks for reporting.
> 
> Here is the patch.

Nice catch, and thanks for the patch.  I'll apply it with a backpatch to when
they were removed.

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Daniel Gustafsson